“There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
"Sît willekomen herre wirt" dem gruoze muoz ich swîgen,<br>"sît willekomen herre gast", sô muoz ich sprechen oder nîgen.<br>wirt unde heim sint zwêne unschamelîche namen,<br>gast unde herberge muoz man sich dicke schamen. <br class="br">"'Sît willekomen herre wirt' dem gruoze muoz ich swîgen", line 1; translation by Tim Chilcott. http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/pgvb3908.htm
“Success in life consists of standing without shame before God.”
Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“It is a matter of great shame that the birds wake up in the morning before you.”
Abu Bakr (573–634) First Muslim Caliph and a companion of Muhammad
Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.65)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 17: "Love between Brothers and Sisters".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)