We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. — Sallust Copy Share Image
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight. — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about. — Sirius Black Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“To boast wonder takes great courage. Being left speechless with joy is not for the weak. We forget to be surprised by… — Edmond Manning Copy Share Image
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in… — Jacques Ellul 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
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
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
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
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin 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
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
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