Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous regarde comme un homme de mérite—Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man of merit. Fr.
Parliamentary government is government by 45 speaking. Macaulay.
Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges—To refuse graciously is to confer a favour. Pub. Syr.
Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges—To refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. Pub. Syr.
Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia—A portion of mankind glory consistently in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Hor.
Pars minima est ipsa puella sui—The girl herself is the least part of herself. Ovid.
Pars minima sui—The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.
Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit—It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. Sen.
Parsimonia est magnum vectigal—Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. Henry Home.