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List of English Proverbs

English proverbs and sayings beginning with the letters P, R, and S.

  • Paddle your own canoe.
  • Pain is only weakness leaving the body.
  • Patience is a virtue.
  • Penny wise, pound foolish.
  • People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
  • Perfect Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
  • Persistence becomes Reality.
  • Politics makes strange bedfellows.
  • Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  • Practice before you preach.
  • Practice makes perfect.
  • Practice what you preach.
  • Prevention is better than cure.
  • Pride comes before a fall.
  • Procrastination is the thief of time.
  • Profit is divine but greed is evil.
  • Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death.
  • Put it in song, put it in drink; but never, ever put it in ink!
  • Rather be a dog in peace, than to be a man in chaos.
  • Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
  • Reality is often stranger than fiction
  • Repetition is the mother of memory.
  • Revenge is a dish best served cold.
  • Rome wasn't built in a day.
  • Rules were meant to be broken.
  • Same meat, different gravy.
  • Same trouble, different day.
  • Say something nice or say nothing at all.
  • Seek and ye shall find.
  • Seek water in the sea.
  • Self trust is the first secret of success.
  • Shallow graves for shallow people.
  • Silence is golden.
  • Simple minds think alike.
  • Slow and steady wins the race.
  • Slow but sure.
  • Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
  • So close, yet so far.
  • Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you.
  • Someone who gossips to you will gossip about you.
  • Something is better than nothing.
  • Something worth doing is worth doing well.
  • Spare the rod, spoil the child.
  • Speak the truth, but leave immediately.
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
  • Still waters run deep.
  • Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
  • Strike while the iron is hot.
  • Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.
  • Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.
  • Success is a journey not a destination.