A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.
I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.
It's not my personality to brag in any way or be pretentious. It's just not my nature.
I don't want to brag, but I can make people laugh and then be terrified.
I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive.
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.
I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.
I've said this before, any accomplishment that I make will be something that I will look back on when I'm done playing and be excited about and probably brag to my kids and grandkids about.
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.
I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
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