“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
“As pride increases, fortune declines.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The proud hate pride—in others.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“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 (verified)“No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. It you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life: nothing is great or desirable, if it is off from that.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra (unverified)