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Letter "P" » Pride
«Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.»
«People Express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.»
Author: Alfred Kahn
| About:
Babies,
Pride,
Success
| Keywords:
archetypical, deregulation, People Express, proudest
«Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone»
«Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
avarice, Hearts of, on fire, set on, set on fire, sparks
«One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.»
«Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home»
«Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.»
«One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
affectation, airs, cures, seasickness, vomit, vomited, vomiting, vomit up
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pride,
Shame
| Keywords:
achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«One may be humble out of pride.»
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