It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays… — Jonathan Swift 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
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. — Anthony Trollope 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
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Sex is what you boast about when you have no exterior signs of wealth. It's a way of saying, "Look, I might… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn 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
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate… — Charles Churchill 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
“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
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
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
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 a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
“What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as if it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. — John Piper Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
