Popular Quotes

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

- W. S. Gilbert

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

- Samuel Johnson

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

- William Hazlitt

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

- Jewish proverb

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

- Jean Paul Richter

The sun will set without thy assistance.

- The Talmud

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

- English proverb

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

- J. D. Salinger

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

- Bertrand Russell

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

- Thomas Fuller

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

- Thomas Fuller

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

- Henry Burton

Pride ruined the angels.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

- Benjamin Franklin

The proud hate pride—in others.

- Benjamin Franklin

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

- William Knox

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

- James Russell Lowell

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

- Bible

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

- Alexander Pope

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

- Voltaire