Poor when I have, poor when I haven't, poor will I ever be. Gael. Pr.
Poortith (poverty) is better than pride. Sc. Pr.
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. Goldsmith.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. 45 Carlyle.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. J. S. Mill.
Popularity is a blaze of illumination, or alas! of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and "caput mortuum." Carlyle.
Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo / Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca—The people hiss me; but I applaud myself at home as soon as I gaze upon the coins in my chest. Hor., for the miser.
Populus vult decipi; decipiatur—The people wish to be deceived; then let them.
Por mucho madrugar, no amanéce mas aina—Early rising does not make the day dawn sooner. Sp. Pr.
Porcus Epicuri-A pig of Epicurus.