I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults,… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it… — Caitlin Moran 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
“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Sex is what you boast about when you have no exterior signs of wealth. It's a way of saying, "Look, I might… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a… — Jimmy Carter 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
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I don't think I can boast about him. 'Hey, my dad is a British institution; he's done all these incredible things and… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and… — Jesse Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre 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
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
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
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
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
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
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney 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
![“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/fanny-burney-7403_boast_the-laws-of-custom-make-our-returning-a_580819.jpg)
