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Hunger brings people down, but pride can help them get up.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about proudness, hunger, help, people

Never say no due to pride, or yes due to weakness.

Proverbs and old sayings about weakness, proudness

Plenty brings pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about proudness

Honesty is na pride.

Proverbs and old sayings about honesty, proudness

Plenty breed pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about proudness

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about ingratitude, proudness

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about proudness, contentment

Pitch and tar are the navy seaman's pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about proudness

By pride one causes virtue to decline.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about decline, proudness, virtue

The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.

Proverbs and old sayings about ignorance, proudness

Comfort is better than pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about proudness

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about charity, proudness

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about failure, proudness, heart

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings French about voice, flowers, proudness

Poverty is no disgrace, but neither do you have to take pride in it.

Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, poverty, contentment

Sin is not perfect until one prides oneself on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about perfection, sin

Eat fire and your mouth burn; live on credit and your pride will burn.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about proudness, fire, fire brigade

If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.

Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, wealth, wisdom, woman, love

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, man