“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility” — Marcus Aurelius 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
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me… — Isaac Watts 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
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
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
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
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington 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
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. — Thomas Carlyle 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
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting. — Gertrude Stein 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
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
