Plain dealing's a jewel, but they that use it die beggars. Pr.
Plain living and high thinking. Wordsworth. 15
Plants are children of the earth; we are children of the ether. Our lungs are properly our root; we live when we breathe: we begin our life with breathing. Novalis.
Plaster thick, / Some will stick. Pr.
Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. King Lear, iv. 6.
Plato enim mihi unus est instar omnium—Plato alone in my regard is worth them all. Antimachus, in Cic.
Plato's scheme was impossible even in his own 20 day, as Bacon's "New Atlantis" in his day, as Calvin's reform in his day, as Goethe's "Academe" in his. Out of the good there was in all these men, the world gathered what it could find of evil, made its useless Platonism out of Plato, its graceless Calvinism out of Calvin, determined Bacon to be the meanest of mankind, and of Goethe gathered only a luscious story of seduction, and daintily singable devilry. Ruskin.
Plausibus ex ipsis populi, lætoque furore, / ingenium quodvis incaluisse potest—At the applauses of the public, and at its transports of joy, every genius may grow warm. Ovid.
Plausus tunc arte carebat—In those days applause was unaffected. Ovid.
Play not for gain, but sport. George Herbert.