Boast Quote by John Gay Download Open image “Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.” — John Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Claims Distinction Fool Pride
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.” — Eric Hirzel Copy Share Image
“Many of those who strive to overcome pride are hoping to puff themselves up with this triumph.” — Nuruddin Abdur-Rahman Jami Copy Share Image
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. — John Gay Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. — John Gay Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend… — John Gay Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides 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
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
