Quotes on Humility, Pride, Arrogance

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Quotes on Humility, Pride, Arrogance

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Pride will have a fall. Proverb

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? The Bible, Job, 4, 17

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. The Bible, Psalms, 127, 1

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. The Bible, Proverbs, 16, 18

Descent, n. Going lower. Popularly used to indicate that the existing generation is a peg worse than that which fathered it. Thus one Darwin justly discourses upon the superiority of the ancestral baboon in a melancholy essay, called "The Descent of Man." Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Descent

Edible, adj. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Edible

Epidermis, n. The thin integument which lies immediately outside the skin and immediately inside the dirt. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Epidermis

Esophagus, n. That portion of the alimentary canal that lies between pleasure and business. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Esophagus

Evolution, n. The process by which the higher organisms are gradually developed from the lower, as Man from the Assisted Immigrant, the Office-Holder from the Ward Boss, the Thief from the Office-Holder, etc. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Evolution

Haughty, adj. Proud and disdainful, like a waiter. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Haughty

Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Innate

Monkey, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, s. v. Monkey

He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still.
S. Butler, Hudibras, 3, 3, 547

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help - for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.

O. Khayyám, Rubáiyát, 52 (Translated by E. Fitzgerald)

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
Sir W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act 1

[To Dr Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. O. Goldsmith, 1773, Boswell's Life of Johnson

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. S. Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1766

I have not the slightest feel of humility towards the Public - or to anything in existence, - but the eternal Being, the Principle of Beauty, and the Memory of great Men. J. Keats, Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 9 April 1818

Par ma foi! il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien. [Good heavens! I have been talking prose for over forty years without realizing it.] Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Act 2, Scene 4

Quand je me jouë à ma chatte, qui sçait si elle passe son temps de moy plus que je ne fay d'elle? [When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?] M. de Montaigne, Essays, Book 2, Ch. 12

A man may jump ten feet with less difficulty than he can jump twenty, but the impossibility of his leaping to the moon is not a whit less than that of his leaping to the dog-star. E. A. Poe, Eureka

Nearly all our best men are dead! Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, George Eliot! I'm not feeling very well myself! The Punch, Vol. 104, 210, 1893

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. G. B. Shaw, Candida, Act 1

You will find us only on the very best atlases, because we are the smallest country left in Europe... P. Ustinov, Romanoff and Juliet, Act 1

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