A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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PRIDE feels no pain

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  1614 T. ADAMS Devil’s Banquet II. 73 Pride is neuer without her own paine, though shee will not feele it: be her garments what they will, yet she will neuer be too hot, nor too colde. 1631 JONSON New Inn II. i. Thou must make shift with it. Pride feeles no pain. Girt thee hard, Pru. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 277 Pride finds no cold. Spoken.. to Beaus [fops] with their open Breasts, and Ladies with their extravagant Hoops [hooped skirts]. 1865 SURTEES Facey Romford’s Hounds xxxii. It was hard upon the old boy, who .. was not at all adapted for the sport; but pride feels no pain, and he went at it like a man. 1981 Radio Times 28 Feb.-6 Mar. 43 (advertisement) Pride feels no pain, the saying goes. Thankfully, with Clarks [shoes] it doesn’t have to. "pride
  

PRIDE goes before a fall
Pride precedes disaster. An elliptical version of PROVERBS xvi. 18 (AV) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

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  c 1390 GOWER Confessio Amantis I. 3062 Pride.. schal doun falle. 1509 A.
  

BARCLAY Ship of Fools 195^V First or last foule pryde wyll haue a fall. 1784 S. JOHNSON Letter 2 Aug. (1952) III. 191 I am now reduced to think.. of the weather. Pride must have a fall. 1856 H. MELVILLE Piazza Tales 431 The bell’s main weakness was where man’s blood had flawed it. And so pride went before the fall. 1930 W. S. MAUGHAM Cakes & Ale v. I suppose he thinks he’d be mayor himself. .. Pride goeth before a fall. 1980 M. L. WEST in K. J. Dover Ancient Greek Literature iii. The spectacle of Xerxes’ defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall. 2001 K. HALL PAGE Body in Moonlight epilogue 233 Millicent had disagreed. Vanity, pure and simple. Pride goeth before a fall. It was one of the maxims by which Millicent lived. ■ pride; retribution