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
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
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
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's… — Nancy Dunnan 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
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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