贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。 pleasure comes through toil. 苦尽甘来。 pour water into a sieve. 竹篮子打水一场空。 practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。 praise is not pudding. 恭维话不能当饭吃。 praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。 prefer loss to unjust gain. 宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。 prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。 pride goes before, and shame comes after. 骄傲使人落后。 promise is debt. 一诺千金。 proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. 谚语是日常经验的结晶。 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. 开卷有益。 reading is to the mind while exercise to the body. 读书健脑，运动强身。 respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. 要人尊敬，必须自重。 rome is not built in a day. 冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。 saying is one thing and doing another. 言行不一。 seeing is believing. 眼见为实。 seek the truth from facts. 实事求是。 send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him. 智者当差，不用交代。 set a thief to catch a thief. 以贼捉贼。 short accounts make long friends. 好朋友勤算账。 something is better than nothing. 聊胜于无。 soon learn, soon forgotten. 学得快，忘得快。 soon ripe, soon rotten. 熟得快，烂得快。 speech is silver, silence is gold. 能言是银，沉默是金。 still water run deep. 静水常深。 strike the iron while it is hot. 趁热打铁。 success belongs to the persevering. 坚持就是胜利。 take things as they come. 既来之，则安之。 talking mends no holes.