Quotes on Boast

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

What has passed is already finished with._x000D_ What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts_x000D_ _x000D_ Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows;_x000D_ _x000D_ Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods_x000D_ _x000D_ All flushed with many hues.

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 man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.