First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. . . . And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame?
I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
Those who boast are seldom the great.
If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.