Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young 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
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell 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
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Don’t always complain about your misfortunes or boast about your achievements, nothing annoys people as this.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you are courageous, people say you are boastful or “too known”. You either choose to accept what they say to you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image