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If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
— Bernard Williams
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
— Winston Churchill
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
— Criss Jami
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.
— Geoff Capes
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
— William Wordsworth
A river cannot boast to a sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
— Nikki Sixx
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
— H.L. Mencken
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
— Publilius Syrus
C" is for colonies Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most! — Mrs. Ernest Ames
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
— Seneca The Younger
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
— Joseph Hopkinson
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ...
— Charles Churchill
Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I'd rather hang out with real people, and real people don't have to boast.
— Charles F. Glassman
Go on, fair Science; soon to theeShall Nature yield her idle boast;
Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
But thou hast trained it to a post. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast,But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast. — Mike D
Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.
— Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
— Bertrand Russell
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Who does not wish to have noble ancestors?Who does not wish to have noble descendants?
Even fools boast that their ancestors were sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...
— Charlotte Bronte
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
— Eliza Haywood
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
— Thomas Carlyle
Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.
— Rabindranath Tagore
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
— Peter Brodie
The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
— Arthur Helps
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
— Antoine Rivarol
Boast quietly, with decorum.
— Mason Cooley
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
— John Milton
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
— Bernard Berenson
Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
— Mary Shelley
Being a Christian ... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
— Patrick Henry
Those who boast are seldom the great.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It
— John Piper
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
— Thomas Watson
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
— Samuel Johnson
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
— Oliver Goldsmith
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
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
— Marie Corelli
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.
— Susanna Centlivre
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
— Anthony Trollope
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
— Emily Post
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
— Iris Murdoch
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
— Mason Cooley
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
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that l the power of Christ may rest upon me.
— Anonymous
Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If ever I boast of seeing a fairer face in all this wide world, may I die a liar's death.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are 2 motives for reading a book; 1. That you enjoy it, 2. that can boast about it on goodreads.
— Bertrand Russell
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
— Mason Cooley
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
— Bertrand Russell
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
— William Shakespeare
