Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
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