实用英语谚语3000句P

1876. Paddle your own canoe. 自力更生，自食其力。

1877. Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。

1878. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。

1879. Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。

1880. Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。

1881. Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。

1882. Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。

1883. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。

1884. Patience is the best remedy （or medicine）. 忍耐是最好的药物。

1885. Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。

1886. Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。

1887. Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平，人间持善意。

1888. Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃万全之策。

1889. Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。

1890. Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。

1891. Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。

1892. People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。

1893. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。

1894. Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。

1895. Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。

1896. Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。

1897. Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。

1898. Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。

1899. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，人人不讨好。

1900. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。

1901. Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。

1902. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。

1903. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。

1904. Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。

1905. Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。

1906. Poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。

1907. Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。

1908. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。

1909. Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。

1910. Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。

1911. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。

1912. Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。

1913. Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。

1914. Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。

1915. Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。

1916. Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。