We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Never boast about today with your own mouth.let other mouth praise you. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
