Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
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
“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
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
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
You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll 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
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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