Out of debt, out of danger.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

Pain is forgotten when gain comes.

Pain is more affecting than pleasure.
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.

Past labour is pleasant.

Passion and Deliberation never set their horses together.

Passion maketh man a beast, but wine maketh him worse.

Patience and application will carry us through.

Patience grows not in every garden.

Patience, money, and time, bring all things to pass.

Patience provoked turns to fury.

Penitence and Innocence are near relations.

Penny come quick soon makes twopence.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Perfect love never settled in a light head.

Perhaps you may have such broth sent you as you will not like.

Pheasants are fools, if they invite the hawk to dinner.
Pigeons are taken, when crows fly at pleasure.

Pity cureth envy.

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion.

Plants too often removed will not thrive.

Play may be good, but folly can never be of any use.

Pleasant discourses make short day and night.

Pleasant hours fly fast.

Pleasure tasteth well after service.

Policy may be virtuous, as well as vicious.

Poor folks must say, "Thank ye," for a little.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach

for their meat.

Positive men err most of any men.

Possession is eleven points of the law.

Possibilities are infinite.

Poverty breaks covenants.
Poverty is an evil counsellor.

Poverty is a friend to health.
Poverty trieth friends.

Praise is always pleasant.

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

Praise not the day before night.

Praise not the ford, till you are safe over.

Praises from an enemy imply real merit.

Prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night.

Precious things are not found in heaps.

Presumption first blinds a man; and then sets him a

running.

Prettiness is short lived.

Prevention is much preferable to cure.

Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often seen together.

Pride feels no frost.

Pride goes before, shame follows after.

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity.

Pride is the sworn enemy to content.

Pride is to be feared, even in good actions.

Pride loves no man, and is beloved of no man.

Pride scorns the vulgar, yet lies at its mercy.

Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall.

Promised relief is always welcome.

Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prosperity and vanity are often lodged together.

Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them. Prosperity has everything cheap.

Prosperity knows not the worth of patience.

Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.

Proud men can't bear with pride in others.

Providence is better than rent.

Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends.

Prudence is not satisfied with May-be's.

Prudent pauses forward business.

Put a poor man's penny, and a rich man's penny, into a purse, and they'll come out alike.

Put another man's child into your bosom, and he'll creep out at your sleeves.

Quarrelling dogs come halting home.

Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side.

Quick and nimble; more like a bear than a squirrel.

Quick at meat, quick at work.

Quick landlords make careful tenants.

Quick wits are generally conceited.
Quiet persons are welcome everywhere.

Ragged colts may make fine horses.

Rash presumption is a ladder, which will break the mounter's

neck.

Rashness is not valour.

Raw leather will stretch.

Reason is a firm foundation to build upon.

Rebukes ought not to have a grain of salt more than of

sugar.

Regulate thy own passions, and bear those of others.

Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak.

Remember the reckoning.

Remembering of old injuries invites new ones.

Remove an old tree, and you'll kill it.

Repentance is the whip for fools.

Repent of a good action, if you can.

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.

Reputation serves to virtue, as light does to a picture.

Reproof never does a wise man any harm.

Revenge never repairs an injury.

Rich men, and fortunate men, have need of much prudence.

Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads.

Rich men have often the hearts of poor men.

Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.

Riches alone make no man happy.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.

Riches may at any time be left, but not poverty.

Riches well got and well used, are a great blessing.
Ride softly, that you may get home the sooner.
Right reckoning makes long friends.

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Rob Peter to pay Paul.

Rolling stones gather no moss.

Rome was not built in a day.

Sacrifice not thy heart upon every altar.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Salt spilt, is seldom clean taken up.
Satires run faster than panegyrics.
Saving is getting.

Sauce for a goose is sauce for a gander.

Say not ill of the year till it be past.

Scald not thy lips with another man's porridge.

Scandal will rub out like dirt when it is dry.

Sceptres and suiters hate competitors.

Scorning is catching.

Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.

Search not for a good man's pedigree.

Seek not to reform every one's dial by your watch.

Seek till you find; and you'll not lose your labour.
Self do, self have.

Self-exaltation is the fool's paradise.

Self-preservation is nature's first law.

Send a fool to market, and a fool he'll return.

Send not to market for trouble.

Servants will not be diligent, where the master's negligent.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery,

Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Set not your loaf in till the oven's hot.