A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

parsnip see FINE words butter no parsnips.
part see (noun) DISCRETION is the better part of valour; if you’re not part of the SOLUTION, you’re part of the problem; (verb) the BEST of friends must part.
parted see a FOOL and his money are soon parted.
Things PAST cannot be recalled
Cf. late 14th-cent. Fr. ce qui est passe ne poet on recouver, that which is past one cannot recall.
□a 1500 H. MEDWALL Nature H3V A thyng don can not be called agayn. a 1535 MORE Edward V in J. Hardyng Chronicle (1543) II. 36 Sith [since] thynges passed cannot be gaine called, muche more ought wee to bee ware. 1616 T. DRAXE Adages 151 That that is past, cannot be recalled or helped. 1804 M. EDGEWORTH Popular Tales II. 130 Since a thing past can’t be recalled.. we may be content. 1979 Country Life 24 May 1683 Visually, another period’s realities are palpably inaccessible. Things past cannot be —perfectly—recalled. «past; regrets
pastime see he that would go to SEA for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime. paternoster see NO penny, no paternoster.
PATIENCE is a virtue
Cf. Disticha Catonis I. xxxviii. maxima enim.. patientia virtus, patience is the greatest virtue; mid 14th-cent. Fr. patience est une grant vertu, patience is a great virtue.
□1377 LANGLAND Piers Plowman B. xi. 370 Suffraunce [forbearance] is a souer- eygne vertue. c 1386 CHAUCER Tale of Melibee 1. 1517 Pacience is a greet vertu of perfeccioun. 1594 LYLY Mother Bombie v. iii. Patience is a vertue, but pinching is worse than any vice! 1754 RICHARDSON Grandison II. xvii. Aunt Prue in Yorkshire.. will be able to instruct you, that patience is a virtue; and that you ought not to be in haste to take a first offer, for fear you should not have a second. 1858 TROLLOPE Dr. Thorne I. xiv. That was only three days ago. Why don’t you.. ferret her out?.. Patience is and always was a virtue. 1979 A. FOX Threat Warning Red iv. ‘I.. can’t wait for you.’.. ‘Patience is and said to be a virtue?’ ■ patience and impatience