BARCLAY Ship of Fools 195 V First or last foule pryde wyll haue a fall. 1784 S.
JOHNSON Letter 2 Aug. (1952) III. 191 I am now reduced to think.. of the weather. Pride
must have a fall. 1856 H. MELVILLE Piazza Tales 431 The bell’s main weakness was
where man’s blood had flawed it. And so pride went before the fall. 1930 W. S.
MAUGHAM Cakes & Ale v. I suppose he thinks he’d be mayor himself. .. Pride goeth
before a fall. 1980 M. L. WEST in K. J. Dover Ancient Greek Literature iii. The spectacle
of Xerxes’ defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes
before a fall. 2001 K. HALL PAGE Body in Moonlight epilogue 233 Millicent had
disagreed. Vanity, pure and simple. Pride goeth before a fall. It was one of the maxims by
which Millicent lived. pride; retributionpriest see ONCE a priest, always a priest; like PEOPLE, like priest.prince see whosoever DRAWS his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard
away; PUNCTUALITY is the politeness of princes.
problem see if you’re not part of the SOLUTION you’re part of the problem; a TROUBLE
shared is a trouble halved.
PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time1742 E. YOUNG Night Thoughts I. 18 Procrastination is the Thief of Time; Year
after year it steals, till all are fled. 1850 DICKENS David Copperfield xii. Never do to-
morrow what you can do to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time. 1935 O. NASH
Primrose Path 100 Far from being the thief of Time, procrastination is the king of it.
2000 D. LINDSAY CuttingEdge of Barney Thomson xxi. 219 ‘Ach, well, ye know how it
is,.. an’ so I procrastinated, I must admit. I know what ye must be thinking, laddie..
Procrastination is the thief of time, aye, isn’t that the truth.’ procrastinationPROMISES, like pie-crust, are made to be broken1681 Heraclitus Ridens 16 Aug. He makes no more of breaking Acts of Parliaments,
than if they were like Promises and Pie-crust made to be broken. 1871 TROLLOPE Ralph
the Heir II. iv. ‘Promises like that are mere pie-crust,’ said Ralph. 1981 Family Circle
Feb. 66 Promises, like pie-crusts, they say, are made to be broken. Not at Sainsbury’s.
Every single pie they sell lives up to the promise of its famous name. 2002 Oldie Aug. 26
Unhappily for most of those zillionaire twenty-somethings—and for those who invested
in the New Economy they thought they had invented—their promises turned out to be
piecrust. deception