Pride Goes Before Fall Quotes

#1. Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#4. Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#5. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt

#7. You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. In all of eternity, no faery born has overcome me in anything.'
Aaah. Pride goeth before the fall, my friend"
Irial stood and clasped Devlin's hand
"but you've already fallen, haven't you?'
And to that, Devlin had no answer.

Melissa Marr

#9. There's a reason they say,Pride goeth before a fall.

Richelle Mead

#10. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

#11. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Peter Kreeft

#12. Pride goeth before the fall ... but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

#13. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Anonymous

#14. I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall ... but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Wil Wheaton

#15. Pride goes before the fall.

Michelle Hodkin

#16. Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling.

Shane Peacock

#17. My face heated with embarrassment. The crossbreed member of Keystone - formerly known as the Shadow, a merciless killer - is now on the hunt for linens. Viktor

Dannika Dark

#18. Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

Ben Elton

#19. Pride must be a summer thing, because it "comes before the fall.

Jarod Kintz

#20. Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all.

Edward O. Wilson

#21. Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

David Myers

#22. It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#23. Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#24. A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

#25. It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

Philip Connors

#26. Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

Paul Weyrich