Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Benjamin Franklin

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Benjamin Franklin

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Avicii

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.

Anton Chekhov

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

Anthony Trollope

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

Demi Lovato

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

Bob Dylan

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

Billy Bragg

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Bode Miller

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Antonin Scalia

[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

Bruce Lee

A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

Edmund Spenser

How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!

Edmund Burke

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

Edmund Burke

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Edmund Burke

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Diego Rivera

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Edward Gibbon

When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.

Elizabeth Barton

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.