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Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts.
-Anonymous Author

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
-Paul Bryant

Shame is pride's cloak.
-William Blake

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death, one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-Horace Mann

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety.
-Bertrand Russell

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.
-Proverb

Pride had rather out of the way than go behind.
-Thomas Fuller

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
-Robert Burton

Pride is an admission of weakness, it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
-Fulton John Sheen

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
-William Wordsworth

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
-George Santayana

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
-William Blake

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
-Benjamin Franklin

The nobler the blood the less the pride.
-Anonymous Author

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
-Bible

He will not enter hell who hath faith equal to a mustard seed in his heart; and he will not enter Paradise who hath a single grain of pride, equal to a mustard seed, in his heart.
-Muhammad

Pride proceeds the fall.
-The Bible

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-Kahlil Gibran

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
-Josh Billings

How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.
-William Blake

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages.
-Samuel Johnson

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
-William S. Gilbert

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.
-French Proverb

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
-Horace

Let your pride pardon what your nature needs, the salutary censure of a friend.
-Anonymous Author

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy, Who dares to put a musket to his shoulder, To kill some other mother's boy.
-Anonymous Author

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
-Alexander Pope

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
-George Chapman

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
-Joseph Addison

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
-Joseph Addison

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-Joe Paterno

This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ...
-William Saroyan

The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy.
-Walt Whitman

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
-Benjamin Franklin

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride.
-Seneca

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
-Jules Renard

Pride sullies the noblest character.
-Claudianus

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
-John Ruskin

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