Pride Is Foolish Quotes

#1. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

Maurice Saatchi

#2. The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. Go away. I'm smelly. And you bother me enormously.

Michelle Hodkin

#5. Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Pietro Aretino

#6. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Joseph Addison

#7. Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

John Biccard

#8. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#9. A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

Adrian Rogers

#10. If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply be unacceptable. They couldn't allow themselves to be so attracted to her narrative if it ended any way but beautifully.

Charlie Donlea

#11. Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Margaret Atwood

#12. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

Raymond E. Feist

#13. With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Criss Jami

#14. It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. Pride often led men to foolish ends.

Alex Westmore

#16. Wise men will change their minds while the foolish stubbornly cling to their pride.

Terron James

#17. Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

Chris Sligh

#18. I love how Scarlett Avery has a way of making the stories come to life. - P brad

Scarlett Avery

#19. Dangerous. Reckless. Foolish. Mad. The words were beginning to feel more like badges of pride than blows. Downstairs,

V.E Schwab

#20. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#21. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#22. Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#23. Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Paul C. Nagel

#24. Pride is a foolish thing, but a powerful force

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. 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

#26. Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

Patrick Rothfuss