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Funny Sayings
A poor workman should not blame his tools.
A porcupine speaking to its baby says, ‘O my child of velvet’.
A postern door makes a thief.
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you – that is life.
A pregnant woman is in more serious danger than sailors and horsemen.
A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
A pretty face costs money.
A pretty girl should have an eyebrow like a willow leaf, an eye like the kernel of an apricot, a mouth like a cherry, a face the shape of a melon seed, and a waist as thin as a poplar’
A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.
A priest’s pocket is not easily filled.
A prince should be slow to punish, and swift to reward.
A princely mind will undo a private family.
A prodigy at ten, a genius at twenty, an ordinary man at thirty.
A profitable rebuke does not smart.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
A promise is a debt.
A promise makes you a debtor.
A promise must be kept not merely in the letter, but in the spirit.
A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.
A prospering man should remain at home.
A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings.
A Proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A Proverb is the child of experience.
A Proverb is to speech what salt is to food.
A Proverb says what man thinks.
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
A prudent man may, on occasion, change his opinion, but a fool changes as often as the moon.
A prudent man will observe the indications of character which nature reveals in others.
A public insult requires a public apology.
A puff of wind and popular praise weigh alike.
A punishment always appears far more severe when it is inflicted by a merciful man.
A puppy fears not the lion.
A pure heart has few desires.
A puss in boots catches no mice.
A quarrel due to envy is not settled with the passage of time.
A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it’s out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors.
A Quarter of an hour is worth more than a thousand gold coins.
A quick temper does not bring quick success.
A quickly heated room quickly cools.
A quiet fool is half a sage.
A quiet tongue shows a wise head.
