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No job is complete until the selfie is posted. — Ashok Kallarakkal

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it? — Donna Lynn Hope

A river cannot boast to a sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast. — Ayn Rand

Tionnax are always boasting that they were once annax. Heartan, Viddion marah. — Taylor Grace

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it. — William Shakespeare

When boasting ends, there dignity begins. — Owen D. Young

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. — Charlotte Bronte

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them. — M. Ageyev

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all. — Charles Spurgeon

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle. — Alexander McCall Smith

Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise. — Lao-Tzu

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer. — John Mackey

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting. — Gertrude Stein

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck

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

From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged; — Lao-Tzu

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful. — Anonymous

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it. — Aman Jassal

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating. — Gaston Leroux

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that. — Max Lucado

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty. — W. Graham Scroggie

Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all. — Michael Dobbs

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' — Eminem

Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest. — Alan Brennert

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. — Dave Barry

Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. — John Dryden

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami

A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. — Gertrude Stein

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. — Ferdinand Foch

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. — T.F. Hodge

I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works. — Chris Oyakhilome

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. — Michel De Montaigne

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson. — Ron Brackin

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is. — Criss Jami

He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about. — Robert Graves

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting. — Paul Theroux

Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work. — Eraldo Banovac

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity. — Ron Brackin

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting. — Mason Cooley

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. — William Shakespeare

Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens. — Virginia Woolf

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers ... We must do what we can to fix this problem. — Stephanie Herseth

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. — Helen Oyeyemi

Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it. — Toba Beta

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

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. — Keith Stanfield

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting. — Mason Cooley

Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do. — Donna Lynn Hope

If you show off do not get upset when God doesn't show up. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross. — John Piper

Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none. — Margaret Weis

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. — Willy Russell

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion. — Bauvard

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. — Jane Austen

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. — Mason Cooley

When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar. — Toba Beta

Ws 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us? — Various

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. — Alexandra Ivy

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. — Bruce Lee

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting! — Steve Camp

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes

I tend to sleep in the nude ... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. — Padma Lakshmi

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. — Rabindranath Tagore

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric. — Thornton Wilder

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you. — Cressida Cowell

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. — Albert Payson Terhune

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow. — Charles Martin

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride. — John Piper

They call me, The Sharkalator — James Patterson

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris