Boast Quotes
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
Ida Tarbell -
Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.
Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
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Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
William Shakespeare -
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe -
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Richard Savage -
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.
Charles Henry Mackintosh -
Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.
Evan Esar -
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
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I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Stephen Hawking -
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Isaac Watts -
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Elisabeth of Wied -
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer -
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
Nathaniel Parker Willis