What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
I choose goodness. . . I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. . . . he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. . . . his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.
Really ain't one to boast, but I'm doing better than most
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
People who boast about their I. Q. are losers.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.