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Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverbs and old sayings British about proudness, vanity, beauty

A Haughty person will not even reach down to take his own nose if it had fallen to the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about proudness, people

Pride only goes the length one can spit.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about proudness

Pride goes only as far as one can spit.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about proudness

Gluttony and vanity grow with age.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about proudness, vanity, age, olderness

Pride will have a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about proudness, fall

The pride of the poor does not endure.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about proudness

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about proudness, blood

Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a pennyless wight.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about proudness, day

Pride feels no pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about proudness, pain

Pride goes before a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about proudness, fall

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about proudness, destruction, spirit, fall

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about dignity, proudness, man

It is pride, not nature, that craves much.

Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, nature

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity.

Proverbs and old sayings English about prosperity, proudness

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Proverbs and old sayings English about proudness, hunger

Pride is no substitute for a dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about proudness

Pride goes before the fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about proudness, fall

Pride can only lose.

Proverbs and old sayings French about proudness

Vanity has no greater foe than vanity.

Proverbs and old sayings French about proudness, vanity