Pride Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Pride quotes, Pride sayings, and Pride proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


A clever person turns great problems into little ones and little ones into none at all.      -- Chinese (on attitude)
A weed is but an unloved flower.      -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919)
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.      -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Always keep an open mind.      -- unknown
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.      -- Albert Camus
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.      -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.      -- unknown
Don't be too quick to judge.      -- unknown
Don't sweat the small stuff.      -- unknown
Don't treat the symptom, instead find the cause.      -- unknown
Every garden may have some weeds.      -- English Proverb
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.      -- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.      -- unknown
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.      -- unknown
Going beyond is as bad as falling short.      -- Chinese (on balance and moderation)
Half a loaf is better than none.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Half the world knows not how the other half lives.      -- George Herbert (1593-1633)
Happiness depends on ourselves.      -- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Happy is the person who learns from the misfortunes of others.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.      -- American Saying
It takes one to know one.      -- unknown
It's a small world.      -- unknown
It's all in how you look at things.      -- unknown
It's six of one, half dozen of another.      -- unknown
Know which side your bread is buttered on.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Little fish are sweet.      -- R. Forby (1830)
Little is spent with difficulty, much with ease.      -- Thai (on buying and selling)
Make the most of every situation.      -- unknown
More than enough is too much.      -- unknown
Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.      -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Much ado about nothing.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
No offense taken when none is meant.      -- unknown
No one should be judge in his own cause.      -- Legal Maxim
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.      -- George Eliot (1819-1880)
Often, less is more.      -- unknown
One man's junk is another man's treasure.      -- unknown
One man's meat is another man's poison.      -- unknown
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.      -- George Herbert (1593-1632)
Our life is what our thoughts make it.      -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
The best sauce in the world is hunger.      -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
The calm before the storm.      -- unknown
The end of one thing is only the beginning of another.      -- unknown
The heart at rest sees a feast in everything.      -- Hindu (Asian Indian) (on attitude)
The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.      -- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
The pot calling the kettle black.      -- unknown
The wheel turns slow but it turns sure.      -- unknown
When in Rome do as the Romans do.      -- unknown but thanks to Mamtasaransh
When surrounded by chaos, find peace within.      -- unknown, thanks to J. Scott.
When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.      -- Arabic (on attitude)
When you taste honey, remember gall.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Wink at small faults     -- ember thou hast great ones. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
You can't be a true winner until you have lost.      -- unknown
You can't get blood from a stone.      -- John Lydgate (c.1370-1451)
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.      -- Japanese (on basic truths)