Boasters Quote by Theophrastus Download Open image “I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.” — Theophrastus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boasters Doe Pretension
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Boasting may be an expressive ego whereas avoiding boasting definitely is a suppressive ego.” — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your… — Criss Jami 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 already become… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto… — Horace Copy Share Image
Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles,… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image