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Pride goes before a what?  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
6/27/2013 10:28 am
Pride goes before a what?
Pride goes before a what?

You've probably had the same thing happen to you as it does to me...some phrase or quotation pops into your mind and after you've thought about it for awhile, you wonder what the heck the darn thing means in the first place.

PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL?--- duh?

I could understand pride going AFTER a fall, especially if --say--you split the seat of your pants open falling, or, if you'd just been telling someone what excellent balance and agility you had and then tripped over a crack in the sidewalk.

It seems to echo in my mind that the quote is actually: Pride goeth beforeth a fall.

Now, when we add that GOETH and BEFORETH in there, we're taking this quote back even before I was born, and THAT was a long, long time ago.

When we go back into these old biblical sayings there's really no telling what the heck those cloistered monks were writing about, or even thinking about (aside from the alter boys)... We can be pretty darn sure that the meaning of that quote was NOT a literal one, but more of some philosophical mumble jumble. Most of those early script<b> writers </font></b>were half-snokered on red wine all day long and they may just have gotten the original quote backward. It's very possible it should be that pride goes after a fall. THAT would make more sense to me.

So which of you brainiacks reading this post knows what the heck this QUOTE actually means?

Even if it HAS a philosophical and not a LITERAL meaning to it, it really doesn't make any sense to me. So, if it doesn't make any sense, how come it's hung around in our vocabularies for these many years? It MUST have had SOME significance to have hung around in our language for so long, right?

You can see by this discussion with an imaginary YOU, how I spend some of my leisure time.

There are so MANY thing to ponder in this great big world!!!

by David Stardust..Thursday morning, June 27th, 2013....
stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
7/10/2013 12:37 pm
    Quoting bowdrie5:
    That's easy. It's hard to be proud after you fall on your face. Living out in the boondocks as you do, you probably don't have to deal with stupid very often but here in the city I am constantly running into these young punks, proud as hell that they can take advantage of their parents or work the system to get everything they want. Proud as hell until they get cut off and don't know how to work for it.
I know what you mean Bowdrie. I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to put up with them anymore...xoxodavid


bowdrie5 73M
377 posts
7/10/2013 11:12 am

 That's easy. It's hard to be proud after you fall on your face. Living out in the boondocks as you do, you probably don't have to deal with stupid very often but here in the city I am constantly running into these young punks, proud as hell that they can take advantage of their parents or work the system to get everything they want. Proud as hell until they get cut off and don't know how to work for it.


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