"Pride feels no cold"

[Laurence Horn]

Somehow I keep thinking:

Love has no pride
Pride feels no pain
_______________

But I can't quite turn it into a syllogism.  Still, it's nice to hear
the music in my mind (either Bonnie Raitt original or Linda Ronstadt
cover)...

LH

At 8:56 PM -0400 10/5/10, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>Thanks to Joel for pointing out this interesting proverb. "Pride feels
>no cold" might be classed together with 'Pride feels no pain" which is
>listed in the online Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2009 editor
>Jennifer Speake). Here are the first three citations. The 1614 cite
>suggests the mechanism by which the variant might have been
>constructed:
>
>Pride feels no pain
>
>1614 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].
>
>I do not think that the Yale Book of Quotations contains this proverb.
>It did not appear in a search using the term "pride".
>
>The fun variant "Pride feels no Frost" appears in 1732 in a volume in
>Google Books.
>
>Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs:
>http://books.google.com/books?id=3y8JAAAAQAAJ&q=pride+feels#v=snippet&
>
>Garson

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