Boasts Quotes

44 quotes by 44 authors

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that… — Charlton Heston
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put… — Bill Moyers
Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is… — Giles Blunt
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a… — Joseph Story
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term… — Moses Mendelssohn
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose… — Claude C. Hopkins
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. — Sophocles
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to… — Xunzi
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One… — John Kessel
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. — Publilius Syrus
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca the Younger
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the… — Walter Bagehot
Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a… — Dave Barry
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty… — Trevanian

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