Quotes About Boast

While Rockefeller made it seem as if such shenanigans occurred far from his sphere, he was fully briefed by Thompson, who liked to boast of his maneuvers.

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

The club motto was To Toot One's Own Horn is Unattractive.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

I don't want to boast about any contribution, but I was part of the group of people who toiled for the film industry.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

She brags that she once earned one

though he doesn't like me, I'd trust him and his honest dislike before others who boast of devotion.

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.

Los necios se jactan de lo que harán. Los héroes lo hacen.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

Joseph Smith was able to convince his faithful followers that he was even greater than Jesus Christ. He said: I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I! The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.19

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married.

I will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two places at the same time." "Is that so difficult?" said the old gentleman; "if so, you have never dreamed!

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Everybody ragged Chet Morton about his bone-rattling car. But he wheeled it around the busy streets of Bayport, and boasted a good safety record, partly because pedestrians and motorists who heard him coming got out of the way.

Let those who boast of present sinful joys remember what shall be in the future and take warning.

Where's the point in undergoing a serious operation if you can't boast about it now and then.

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

In vain do   Papists, Mahometans, and other sects, boast of their antiquity, while   they are mere counterfeits of the true, the pure religion.

God has not rendered you due punishment, but bestows upon you unmerited grace. If you wish to be an alien from grace, boast your merits," (in Psa 70) Again, "You are nothing in yourself, sin is yours, merit God's. Punishment is your due; and when the reward shall come, God shall crown his own gifts, not your merits

If you shall be paid what you deserve, you must be punished. What then happens? God has not rendered you the punishment you deserve, but bestows undeserved grace. If you would be estranged from grace, boast of your own merits." Again: "Of yourself you are nothing. Sins are your own, but merits are God's. You deserve punishment, and when the reward comes he will crown his own gifts, not your merits.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So

Parker had no pity for the two men, not after listening to them boast of what they'd done, but neither was he experiencing any sense of triumph, only a vague depression. It wasn't entirely due to the nature of the case, although that was part of it; mostly it was a consequence of exposure to the workings of the legal system. Anyone who spent time in a courtroom emerged with scars. The only variables were quantity and depth.