Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. — John Gay Copy Share Image
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green… — John Milton 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
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in… — Moses Mendelssohn 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
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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