Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Pride
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
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Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.
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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
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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.
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The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.
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Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse
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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.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
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My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.
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As Pride increases, Fortune declines.
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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
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The proud hate pride in others.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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