A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. -1 Kings xx. 11 — Bible Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines,… — Antonin Kratochvil Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. — Sallust Copy Share Image
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight. — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
