Fine Feathers, False Pride

 

A JACKDAW, having dressed himself in feathers that had fallen from some peacocks, strutted about in the company of those birds, trying to pass himself off as one of them.

They soon found him out, however, and stripped him of his borrowed plumes so roughly—and pecked him so fiercely—that he was glad to rejoin his humble fellows.

But they, too, wanted nothing to do with him and drove him from their company, telling him to remember: "Fine feathers do not make fine birds."

Tags: #FalsePride #Vanity #Deception #Hubris #Arrogance