Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second—Take a woman's first advice and not her second. Fr. Pr.

Prends moi tel que je suis—Take me as I am. M.

Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings. 15 Macb., i. 3.

Preserve the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all. Bacon.

Pressure alone causes water to rise and directs it. Renan.

Presumption is our natural and original disease. Montaigne.

Presumptuousness, which audaciously strides over all the steps of gradual culture, affords little encouragement to hope for any masterpiece. Goethe.

Prêt d'accomplir—Ready to accomplish. M. 20

Prêt pour mon pays—Ready for my country. M.

"Pretty Pussy" will not feed a cat. Pr.