#boast

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#covered #day #had #hear #i

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#boast #head #her #looking #man

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cannot #chastity #her #woman

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#boast #defeat #imperialists #otherwise #superiority

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. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#also #award #bleeding #boast #clicked

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#coward #dares #fear #known #never