We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even… — Henri Peyre Copy Share Image
“But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been… — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If you are courageous, people say you are boastful or “too known”. You either choose to accept what they say to you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana 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
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
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists… — Origen Copy Share Image
The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is… — Markesa Yeager Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works. — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
“The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
