I don't want to boast about any contribution, but I was part of the group of people who toiled for the film industry.
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
My family brought me up very well. I'm not one to boast, I'm more relaxed and focused on what I need to do.
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I am Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, and I'm a professional wrestler. I don't mean to brag or boast, but I love the recognition for it.
You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
I have my faith in God. I was told to be humble before him. Don't boast about what you have done. Don't put credit in your own hands. You have to realize He got you there.
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
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