Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.
A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.