A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

1589 Pasqui’ Return C3 Like people, like Priest begins now to be verified. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 114 Like priest, like people. ..Always taken in the worse sense. 1893 R. HEATH English Peasant IV. iii. He had so deep a reverence for the clergy, that it never entered into his mind that perhaps, after all, it was like people, like priest’. 1963 Delaware County Daily Times 17 May 7/2 The President sets the moral standards for the nation. Like people, like priest.’ Surely our nation is at a low ebb morally. ■similarity and dissimilarity

people see also IDLE people have the least leisure; MORE people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows; the VOICE of the people is the voice of God.
perfect see PRACTICE makes perfect.
perish see he who LIVES by the sword dies by the sword.
perjury see JOVE but laughs at lovers’ perjury.
PHYSICIAN, heal thyself
With allusion to LUKE iv. 23 (AV) Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. (VULGATE medice cura teipsum.)

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  c 1400 tr. Honorius of Autun’s Elucidarium (1909) 29 Blynde leches [doctors], heeleth first youre silf! 1519 J. COLET Sermon to Convocation B5^V If you wyll ponder and loke vpon oure mottis [motes] fyrst take awaye the blockes out of your eies. Hit is an olde Prouerbe: Phisition heale thy selfe. 1780 T. FRANCKLIN tr. Lucian’s Works I. 320 According to the old adage, ‘physician, cure thyself’. 1875 S. SMILES Thrift ii. How can a man.. teach sobriety or cleanliness, if he be himself drunken or foul? ‘Physician, heal thyself,’ is the answer of his neighbours. 1979 G. SWARTH-OUT Skeletons 150 Tell me the truth. Don’t dig yourself in any deeper. Physician, heal thyself. 2002 National Review 11 Feb. 26 As for those who get bent out of shape when they’re ‘Dr.’-less, all we can say is, ‘Ph.D., heal thyself.’ “doctors