Quotes About Boast

Must I not serve a long apprenticehoodTo foreign passages, and in the end,Having my freedom, boast of nothing elseBut that I was a journeyman to grief?

In other words, the most notorious, plain, and victorious truth of God is that God participates in our history - even yours and mine. Our history - all our anxieties - have become the scene of His presence and the matter of his care. We are safe. We are free. Wherever we turn we shall discover that God is already there. Therefore, wherever it be, fear not, be thankful, rejoice, and boast of God.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity

Duck is such a show-off!

The carp boasted a proud, heroic lineage (though of course it was not aware of this, or anything else aside from a vague sense that being a fish was pretty sweet).

Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.

Manson liked to brag that prison was his daddy and the street was his mother.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Richard Marsh

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

Glory in your weaknesses. Paul said, "I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory."21

Fine. We can act like we're fuckups idling about. As per our usual. But if we cap a god, I'm telling everyone I know! Two words: Press. Conference.

Those who do the least, often shout the loudest and so get the most glory.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance," Skulduggery responded. "Are we going to boast about how well-read we are all day or are we going to talk?

Well, the British do have the right to boast about their history, you know, especially about that great king of theirs, Ricahrd the Lionhearted. But even without our teaching you all this, they were participating in the process of rendering our country holy by spilling our blood. Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was, and of which they might proudly boast ignorance. His

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.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

Sometimes showing off produces results.