“Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Never boast about today with your own mouth.let other mouth praise you. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“Special ops have earned the right to boast and don’t; you’re just a wannabee, which is why you do.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be… — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences,… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed… — Leanda de Lisle Copy Share Image
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%)… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists… — Origen Copy Share Image
The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is… — Markesa Yeager Copy Share Image
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
