Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers. . . We must do what we can to fix this problem.
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?'. . If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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.
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
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.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
