A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

outside see there is NOTHING so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
over see the OPERA isn’t over till the fat lady sings; the SHARPER the storm, the sooner it’s over.
own see the DEVIL looks after his own; when THIEVES fall out, honest men come by their own.
owner see OBEY orders, if you break owners.
owt see HEAR all, see all, say nowt; you don’t get SOMETHING for nothing.
ox see BETTER a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is.
It is the PACE that kills
□1855 S. A. HAMMETT Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest xv. The well-known sporting maxim, that ‘It is the pace that kills’. 1901 S. LANE-POOLE Sir H. Parkes in China xx. There is an old proverb about the pace that kills, and.. Sir Harry was killing himself by work at high pressure. 1936 N. MARSH Death in Ecstasy II. xvii. Don’t overdo it. .. This is the pace that kills. "haste; stress
package see the BEST things come in small packages.
pack-drill see NO names, no pack-drill.
padlock see WEDLOCK is a padlock.
pain see GENIUS is an infinite capacity for taking pains; NO pain, no gain; PRIDE feels no pain.
paint see a BLIND man’s wife needs no paint. painted see the DEVIL is not so black as he is painted.
pan see if IFS and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.
paradise see ENGLAND is the paradise of women.
parcel see the BEST things come in small packages.
pardon see OFFENDERS never pardon.
Paris see good AMERICANS when they die go to Paris.
PARSLEY seed goes nine times to the Devil
□1658 in Mennis & Smith Wit Restored 35 There is a saying in the North Riding of Yorkshire that The weed [parsley] before it’s borne Nine times the devill sees. 1885 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. XI. 467 Parsley seed (when it has been sown) goes nine times to the devil. 1908 D. H. LAWRENCE Letter 4 May (1962) I. 7 People say parsley seed goes seven times (some are moderate, discarding the holy number as unfit, and say five) to the Old Lad, it is so long a-germinating. 1981 in A. Hewins Dillen xiv. It’s a queer plant, parsley: ‘sow on Good Friday, seven times down to Hell afore it chits [sprouts (dialect)].’ ■garden lore; superstition