Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bliss Carman

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Bernie Mac

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

Edward Gibbon

On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

Edward Gibbon

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

Edward Gibbon

A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.

Edward Gibbon

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.

Ed Case

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

David Brooks

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Benazir Bhutto

The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.

Bear Grylls

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Bear Grylls

Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Benjamin Franklin

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

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.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.