无债一身轻。Out of debt, out of danger.

久违情疏。眼不见，心不烦。  Out of sight, out of mind.

过犹不及。  Overdone is worse than undone.

自立更生，自食其力。Paddle your own canoe.

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

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

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

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

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

忍耐是一种美德。Patience is a virtue.

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

忍耐是最好的药物。Patience is the best remedy.

Patience is the best medicine.

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

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

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

居安思危，此乃万全之策。 Peace with sword in hand, It is safest making.

笔墨是才智之犁。 Pen and ink is wit's plough.

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

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

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

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

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

隔墙有耳。 Pitchers have ears.

Walls have ears

怜悯近乎爱情。 Pity is akin to love.

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

欢乐的时间过得快。 Pleasant hours fly fast.

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

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

富裕绝非灾祸。 Plenty is no plague.

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。 Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

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

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

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

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

贫穷引起斗争。 Poverty breeds strife.

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

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

贫穷不是罪恶。 Poverty is no sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

老而贫穷，负担沉重。 Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.

贫困才能显出敌和友。 Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies.

贫穷考验朋友。 Poverty tries friends.

身教胜于言教。 Practice is better than precept.

熟能生巧。 Practice makes perfect.

言必行。 Practice what you preach.

恭维不是布丁。恭维话不能当饭吃。  Praise is not pudding.

赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。 Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

盖棺论定。 Praise no man till he is dead.

说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。 Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach.

未雨绸缪。 Prepare for a rain day.

预防胜于治疗。 Prevention is better than cure.

傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。 Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.

大巧若拙。 Pride apes humility.

骄兵必败。 Pride goes before a fall.

Pride goes before a destruction.

骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。 Pride goes before, and shame comes after.

骄傲可能披着老一套的外衣出现。 Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.

骄傲必须收敛。 Pride must be pinched.

骄者必败。 Pride will have a fall.

拖延即浪费时间。 Procrastination is the thief of time.

进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。 Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。 Promise is debt.

少许愿，多做事。 Promise little but do much.

顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。 Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.

顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。 Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries them.

Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.

谚语言短简，得自老经验。 Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

谚语是一国的思想精华。 Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.

谚语是时代的智慧。 Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.

需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。 Prove your friends ere you have need.

作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。 Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.

天公总是佑强者。 Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.

严守时间是办事情的重要原则。 Punctuality is the soul of business.

深谋远虑。 Purpose supposes foresight.

少管闲事。 Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.

出一把力。 Put one's shoulder to the wheel.

Lay one's shoulder to the wheel.

Set one's shoulder to the wheel.

本末倒置。 Put the cart before the horse.

责备该受责备者，表扬该受表扬者。 Put the shoe on the right foot.

质重于量。Quality is better than quantity.

质量比数量重要。Quality matters more than quantity.

情人争争吵吵，自会言归于好。Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.

吃得快，做得快。Quick at meal, quick at work.

手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.

宁静最好。Quietness is best.

安静是生命的皇冠。Quietude is the crown of life.