None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Proverbs and old sayings French about proudness, common sense, power, people
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Better badly mounted than proud on foot.
Proverbs and old sayings German about proudness
Virtue would not go far, if a little vanity walked not with it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about proudness, vanity, virtue
If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about proudness, vanity, deeds, word
In my life of vanity i saw everything: a righteous man dying in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long after his evil deeds.
Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, proudness, vanity, deeds, life, man
It is difficult to soothe the proud.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about proudness
It is a hard task to comfort the proud.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about proudness
It's a very proud horse that will not carry his oats.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about proudness
A proud pauper and a rich miser are contemptible beings.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about proudness, wealth
The boaster and the proud person are fools.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about proudness, people
The marten is proud where there is no weasel.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about proudness
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about proudness, man
Klingons are a proud race, and we intend to go on being proud.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness, being
Treat everything of this world as mere vanity.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about proudness, vanity, world
Mountains never unite. [Haughty people rarely fraternize. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about proudness, people
A turtle is not proud of his long neck.
Proverbs and old sayings Malian about proudness
Every bird is proud of its feathers.
Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about proudness
Never marry an heiress, unless her father has been hanged. She is sure to be proud.
Proverbs and old sayings about proudness
Vanity blossoms but bears no fruit.
Proverbs and old sayings Nepalese about proudness, vanity
A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about proudness
