A Quote by Gladys Taber

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

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Before Destruction Fall Go Goes Jealousy May Pride

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Gladys Taber
American - Author
1899 - 1980

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Joseph Addison

Pride goes before destruction.

Aesop

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

David Myers

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Charles Caleb Colton

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

R. D. Laing

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

William Arthur Ward

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.

Chanel Iman

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Richelle Mead

I buy a lot of random books, and it's really hard to immediately fall asleep if I've been staring at a screen, so reading and trying to put my phone away maybe an hour before I go to sleep are two of my go-to strategies before bed.

Bria Vinaite

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

Sufjan Stevens

On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?