PREVENTION is better than cureCf. c 1240 BRACTON De Legibus v. x. melius & utilius [est] in tempore occurrere, quam
post causam vulneratam quaerere remedium, it is better and more useful to meet a problem in
time than to seek a remedy after the damage is done.
1618 T. ADAMS Happiness of Church 146 Preuention is so much better then
healing, because it saues the labour of being sicke. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no.
3962 Prevention is much preferable to Cure. 1826 J. PINTARD Letter 19 Apr. (1940) II.
257 Prevention is better than cure. .. With perseverance we shall save numbers of little
Devils from becoming big ones. 1954 R. HAYDN Journal of Edwin Carp 148 ‘Why do
you wear those old galoshes when the sun’s shining?’.. ‘Prevention’s better than Cure.’
1996 ‘C. AIRD’ After Effects iii. 28 ‘Glad to hear it, sir,’ said Sloan, adding prosaically,
‘You could say that prevention’s better than cure in the police world as well as the
medical one.’ foresight and hindsight; prudenceprice see EVERY man has his price.PRIDE feels no pain1614 T. ADAMS Devil’s Banquet II. 73 Pride is neuer without her own paine, though
shee will not feele it: be her garments what they will, yet she will neuer be too hot, nor
too colde. 1631 JONSON New Inn II. i. Thou must make shift with it. Pride feeles no
pain. Girt thee hard, Pru. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 277 Pride finds no cold.
Spoken.. to Beaus [fops] with their open Breasts, and Ladies with their extravagant Hoops
[hooped skirts]. 1865 SURTEES Facey Romford’s Hounds xxxii. It was hard upon the old
boy, who .. was not at all adapted for the sport; but pride feels no pain, and he went at it
like a man. 1981 Radio Times 28 Feb.-6 Mar. 43 (advertisement) Pride feels no pain, the
saying goes. Thankfully, with Clarks [shoes] it doesn’t have to. pridePRIDE goes before a fallPride precedes disaster. An elliptical version of PROVERBS xvi. 18 (AV) Pride goeth
before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
c 1390 GOWER Confessio Amantis I. 3062 Pride.. schal doun falle. 1509 A.