Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，說到的多，做到的少。

Please the eye and plague the heart.
貪圖一時快活，必然留下隱禍。
(plague 折磨,使苦惱,使得災(zāi)禍)

Pleasure comes through toil.
苦盡甘來。

Pour water into a sieve.
竹籃子打水一場空。
(sieve 篩,濾網(wǎng),不會保密的人)

Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。

Praise is not pudding.
恭維話不能當(dāng)飯吃。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，壞人越夸越糟。

Prefer loss to unjust gain.
寧可吃虧，不貪便宜。

Prevention is better than cure.
預(yù)防勝于治療。

Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
驕傲使人落后。

Promise is debt.
一諾千金。

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
諺語是日常經(jīng)驗的結(jié)晶。

Pull the chestnut out of fire.
火中取栗。

Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。

Put your shoulder to the wheel.
鼎力相助。

Reading enriches the mind.
開卷有益。

Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
讀書健腦，運動強身。

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
要人尊敬，必須自重。

Rome is not built in a day.
冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。

Saying is one thing and doing another.
言行不一。

Seeing is believing.
眼見為實。

Seek the truth from facts.
實事求是。

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者當(dāng)差，不用交代。
(errand 跑腿：為完成某一項特殊任務(wù)，通常是為他人而走的一段路; / 差事：這種短途旅行的目的或意圖)

Set a thief to catch a thief.
以賊捉賊。

Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算賬。

Something is better than nothing.
聊勝于無。

Soon learn, soon forgotten.
學(xué)得快，忘得快。

Soon ripe, soon rotten.
熟得快，爛得快。

Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是銀，沉默是金。

Still water run deep.
靜水常深。

Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁熱打鐵。

Success belongs to the persevering.
堅持就是勝利。 (persevering 堅忍的, 不屈不撓的)