Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. -1 Kings xx. 11 — Bible Copy Share Image
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
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
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones-… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If I must needs boast, I will boast of my sufferings." II Corinthians 11:30 People boast about their wealth, their physical strength,… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give -Proverbs 25:14 — Bible Copy Share Image
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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