Proverb, Jewish : The hardest work is to go idle.
Proverb, Jewish : A half-truth is a whole lie.
Proverb, Jewish : What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Proverb, Jewish : If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Paddleford, Clementine : Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Page, Larry : For big disruptive ideas, look for people who have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
Paglia, Camille : The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.
Paine, Thomas : My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Paine, Thomas : The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Paine, Thomas : The mind, once enlightened, cannot again be dark.
Paine, Thomas : If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Paine, Thomas : Trying to kill slander keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Paine, Thomas : He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Paine, Thomas : My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Paine, Thomas : Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Paine, Thomas : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Paine, Thomas : Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
Palmer, Parker J. : Abortion foes and pro-choicers can arrive at 'common ground' - adoption.
Palmer, Parker J. : Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering.
Panin, Ivan : The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.
Panin, Ivan : In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
Panwar, Nishan : Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you!
Panwar, Nishan : Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you!
Parker, Dorothy : Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Parker, Dorothy : Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.
Parker, Gilbert : There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Parker, Gilbert : Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Parkinson, C. Northcote : Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Pascal, Blaise : Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Pascal, Blaise : Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor is the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Pascal, Blaise : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith — God felt by the heart, not by the reason.
Pascal, Blaise : I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Pascal, Blaise : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Pascal, Blaise : The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Pascal, Blaise : The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Pascal, Blaise : All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Pascal, Blaise : It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Patchett, Ann : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
Patchett, Ann : The question is whether you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
Patel, Eboo : To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite our tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism. We have to save each other. It is the only way to save ourselves.
Patinkin, Kathryn Grody : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer and novelist, 1850-1893Belief: No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi, Canadian American magician and skeptic, Born 1928Connectedness: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984Nature: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984Rights: The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899Life: The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy, English author, Nobel Prize winner, 1867-1933Conscience: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet, 1902-1971Pain: People who are hurting hurt others.
Patinkin, Kathryn Grody : People who are hurting hurt others.
Patton, George S. : The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
Patton, George Smith : Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Paulus, Trina : How does one become a butterfly? … You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Pausch, Randy : A good apology is like anti-biotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
Pausch, Randy : It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit in life . . . and keep moving forward.
Pausch, Randy : No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom, and when you get there, be really great at sorting mail.
Pavese, Cesare : We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Paz, Octavio : Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Peale, Norman Vincent : Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Peel, Paul : It is no rest to be idle.
Penn, William : O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Penn, William : A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him.
Penn, William : The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
Penn, William : He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
Pepper, Claude : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Perkhurst, Charles H. : The heart as eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Peter, Laurence J. : Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Peter, Laurence J. : Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Peter, Laurence J. : Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Peter, Laurence J. : The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
Peter, Laurence J. : Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Pettit-senn, J. : Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
Pettit-senn, J. : Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Phelps, Edward J. : The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Phillips, Wendell : As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell : All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Phillips, Sydney : Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
Phillips, Wendell : Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Phillips, Wendell : You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Phillips, Wendell : Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
Phillips, Sydney : Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
Phillips, Frederick : It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
Philosophy, Mayan : If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself.
Philosophy, Mayan : You are my other me, we are mirrors of each other. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself.
Physicist, German-born Theoretical : The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Picasso, Pablo : Art is a lie that helps us realize the truth.
Picasso, Pablo : Every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Picasso, Pablo : I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Picasso, Pablo : Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso, Pablo : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Picasso, Pablo : It takes a long time to become young.
Picasso, Pablo : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Picasso, Pablo : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Picasso, Pablo : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pickford, Mary : This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Pilgrim, Peace : Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Pine, Albert : What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.
Pinero, Arthur Wing : I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Pirsig, Robert M. : The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Pitt, William : Where law ends, there tyranny begins.
Pitt, William : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Pitt, William : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Plath, Sylvia : For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Poem, From : Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow.
Poet, Lucretious. Roman : What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin : Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin : When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin : Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin : Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Pollard, J.C. : Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Ponder, Catherine : What you praise you increase.
Pope, Alexander : For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Pope, Alexander : Gardening is landscape painting.
Pope, Alexander : An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope, Alexander : Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Popper, Karl : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Popper, Karl : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Popper, Karl : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
Potter, Dennis : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they�ve been in.
Potter, Dennis : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Potter, Dennis : The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Pound, Ezra : The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Powell, Annetta : Do not let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.
Powers, Llewelyn : A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.
Pratchett, Terry : Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Priest, Ivy Baker : The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Priest, Ivy Baker : We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
Prigogine, Ilya : The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity.
Proust, Marcel : Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
Proverb, English : You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Proverb, English : Many things are lost for want of asking.
Proverb, English : It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
Proverb, Hindu : If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves.
Proverb, Chinese : The strongest person in any room is the one who speaks the least.
Proverb, Latin : Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Proverb, Spanish : From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Proverb, Spanish : From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Proverb, Spanish : Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.
Proverb, Japanese : One kind word can warm three winter months.
Proverb, Tibetan : The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.
Proverb, English : Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Proverb, Russian : Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.
Proverb, German : Better silent than stupid.
Proverb, Indian : Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Proverb, Arab : Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first.
Proverb, Greek : It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
Proverb, German : Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Proverb, Italian : Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Proverb, English : Still waters run deep.
Proverb, Hassidic : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Proverb, Chinese : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth.
Proverb, English : He laughs best who laughs last.
Proverb, German : God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Proverb, U.S. : It is better to be safe than sorry.
Proverb, Greek : It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.
Proverb, Zen : The obstacle is the path.
Proverb, Chinese : With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Proverb, Spanish : Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
Proverb, German : He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
Proverb, Czech : The big thieves hang the little ones.
Proverb, Old : The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb, Scottish : Give and take makes good friends.
Proverb, Greek : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Proverb, Chinese : It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Proverb, Chinese : Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Proverb, Hindu : Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
Proverb, Jewish : Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Proverb, English : When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
Proverb, Chinese : Hatred corrodes the container it's carried in.
Proverb, French : Travelers from afar can lie with impunity.
Proverb, Bosnian : Who lies for you will lie against you.
Proverb, Polish : Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.
Proverb, Chinese : What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
Proverb, English : Every path has its puddle.
Proverb, German : Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, English : You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Proverb, English : You can't get blood out of a turnip.
Proverb, Irish : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Proverb, Irish : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, 1857-1913Maturity: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Proverb, Chinese : Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for a year, marriage. Pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Latin : If there is no wind, row.
Proverb, Latin : Deliberation often loses a good chance.
Proverb, Italian : The best way to get praise is to die.
Proverb, Latin : Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
Proverb, Latin : If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Proverb, Chinese : He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.
Proverb, Mexican : The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.
Proverb, Malaysian : Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
Proverb, African : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Proverb, Sufi : If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger.
Proverb, Chinese : A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.
Proverb, Buddhist : You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.
Proverb, Chinese : If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.
Proverb, Burmese : If a cock ruffles his feathers, he is easy to pluck.
Proverb, English : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Proverb, Eskimo : May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
Proverb, Chinese : Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Proverb, Native American : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money.
Proverb, Chinese : Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Proverb, African : My humanity is tied to your humanity.
Proverb, Danish : A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
Proverb, Japanese : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Proverb, Chinese : If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Proverb, Chinese : Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Chinese : Painting is the song of the brush.
Proverb, Nigerian : When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.
Proverb, Portuguese : A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Proverb, Hindu : Fatigue is the best pillow.
Proverb, Spanish : A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Proverb, Oriental : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it.
Proverb, English : A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Proverb, Spanish : Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
Proverb, Native American : Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Proverb, English : A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
Proverb, Latin : By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Proverb, Yiddish : If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Proverb, Malaysian : Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Proverb, Italian : He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
Proverb, Arabian : The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Proverb, Chinese : One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Proverb, Portuguese : Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Proverb, Irish : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Proverb, Dutch : He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Proverb, Hindu : True happiness consists in making others happy.
Proverb, Native American : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money.
Proverb, Latin : If there is no wind, row.
Proverb, Chinese : The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Proverb, U.S. : What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Proverb, French : To want to forget something is to think of it.
Proverb, Spanish : Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
Proverb, Irish : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Proverb, Latin : Make haste slowly.
Proverb, English : Haste makes waste.
Proverb, Native American : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money.
Proverb, Chinese : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Proverb, English : Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Proverb, French : Gratitude is the heart's memory.
Proverb, English : A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Proverb, Yiddish : If all pulled in the same direction, the world would topple over.
Proverb, English : As you make your bed you must lie in it.
Proverb, Arabian : Greed lessens what is gathered.
Proverb, Arabian : He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Proverb, German : The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
Proverb, French : There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
Proverb, German : The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
Proverb, Chinese : Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Czech : You live a new life for every new language you speak.
Proverb, English : He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on the sea.
Proverb, Ethiopian : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Proverb, Japanese : The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Proverb, Arab : Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!
Proverb, Persian : He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Proverb, Czech : Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.
Proverb, Persian : If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
Proverb, Greek : Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Proverb, English : One man's meat is another's poison.
Proverb, Irish : All sins cast long shadows.
Proverb, Spanish : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Proverb, Chinese : Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Proverb, Portuguese : Laws go where dollars please.
Proverb, Welsh : Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Proverb, Oriental : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it.
Proverb, English : March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
Proverb, English : When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.
Proverb, Malay : Fear to let fall a drop, and you spill a lot.
Proverb, Spanish : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Proverb, Russian : There can be no good without evil.
Proverb, Swedish : When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
Proverb, Russian : If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Proverb, Tibetan : The secret of living well and longer is eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.
Proverb, Russian : The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
Proverb, Persian : When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.
Proverb, Chinese : People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Proverb, German : Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Proverb, Saudi : If there is a door that might bring wind, close the door.
Pushkin, Aleksandr : The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Puzo, Mario : The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.