People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the… — Frederick Douglass 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
I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will… — Max Lucado 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
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' — Eminem 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
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
