A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch
If an employee could see as what quality of his is being praised by the employer, he would never be able to brag about his professional growth & ever boast of his long tenure spent in that organisation. - Anuj Somany
The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity. - José Saramago
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most. - Donna Lynn Hope
If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don’t boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell
The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen! - Charles R. Swindoll
As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world died long ago, and the world's interest in me is also long dead. - Galations 6 14
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. - Bible
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. - Bible
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. - Richard Dawkins
I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact. - William Hope Hodgson
Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent. - Ellen O' Connell
Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word. - Prerak Trivedi
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell
He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo. - Matshona Dhliwayo
But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. - Anonymous
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. - Jorge Luis Borges