Quotes starting with P
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter P, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Parting is such sweet sorrow. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Patience is a virtue. -- unknown
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. -- French Proverb
Patience is the companion of wisdom. -- St. Augustine (354-430)
Pay what you owe and what you're worth you'll know. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Penny wise, pound foolish. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
People are architects of their own fortune. -- Spanish (on fortune)
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. -- Socrates (469-399 BC)
People should take time to be happy. -- Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
People show their character by what they laugh at. -- German (on character and virtue)
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. -- George Herbert (1593-1632)
Persevere no matter what. -- unknown
Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating. -- Maori (on permanence and change)
Persistence is the key. -- unknown
Persuasion is better than force. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Pick your battles. -- unknown
Pick your poison. -- unknown
Plan your life at New Year's, your day at dawn. -- Japanese (on planning)
Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day. -- unknown, courtesy of Bryan Sullivan
Play the hand you're dealt. -- Jawahareal Nehru (1889-1964)
Play the part and you shall become. -- unknown
Please all and you will soon please none. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Pleasing ware is half sold. -- George Herbert (1593-1633)
Pleasures are transient -- ors immortal.- Greek (on heaven and hell)
Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer. -- Zulu (South African)
Poetry moves heaven and earth. -- Japanese (on art and creativity)
Poor people share with the heart. -- Haitian (on generosity)
Possession is nine tenths of the law. -- unknown
Postpone today's anger until tomorrow. -- Tagalog (Filipino) (on anger)
Poverty breeds discontent. -- unknown
Practice makes perfect. -- English Proverb
Practice what you preach. -- unknown
Praise the young and they will blossom. -- Irish Proverb
Pray as if no work could help and work as if no prayer could help. -- German (on prayer)
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Pretty is as pretty does. -- unknown
Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more saucy. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Procrastination is the thief of time. -- unknown
Procrastination only adds stress to your life. -- submitter's name lost due to printer malfunction
Promise little and do much. -- Hebrew (on the conduct of life)
Property has its duties as well as its rights. -- Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. -- George Eliot (1819-1880)
Proverbs are the daughters of experience. -- Sierra Leone
Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat. -- Irish Proverb
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by. -- Korean (on idleness)
Put on your thinking cap. -- unknown
Put two and two together. -- unknown