“The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.” — Richard Paul Evans 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
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed… — Leanda de Lisle Copy Share Image
I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences,… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in… — Edward Irving 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
“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
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
...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
There are two tendencies in all our war talk… The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief? — William Shakespeare 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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
