It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett 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
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. — Rabindranath Tagore 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
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest. — Patrik Baboumian Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster 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
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
