English
Proverb
pride wenteth before a fall
- Alternative form of pride comes before a fall
- 1968, Robert Welch, American Opinion XI, page 59
- By the time I reached the Navy my love of steam preceded me, and I became the stoker for a rickety steam cutter inherited from the Maine. Pride wenteth before a fall; I put the slice bar through one of the cutter’s tubes — and lost my job in a hasty exit over the side.
- 1979, Blossom Elfman, The Sister Act, page 44
- Where was my pride? Pride wenteth before a fall. The **** with pride.
- 2007, David Renner, Memoirs of a Fool I, page 171
- Brock’s foot touched the plate just as he and Freehan’s mitt with the ball in it met. Normally, a tie was given to the runner, but the umpire must have believed that pride wenteth before a fall and called Brock out.