Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck… — Edward Everett Hale 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
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not… — H. L. Mencken 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
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have… — Harriot Kezia Hunt 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
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud 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
