#boasting

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After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.


Criss Jami


#actions-over-words #boasting #bragging #cheap #cheapness

Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too." Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.


Erin Bow


#belonging #boasting #hope #longing #talking-animals

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.


Criss Jami


#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.


Flavor Flav


#against #angle #boasting #bragging #dance

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.


Nathaniel Smith


#among #boasting #carts #cleveland #delight

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.


Owen D. Young


#boasting #dignity #ends

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.


William Shakespeare


#boasting #killing #rage #threats #warning

The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.


Markesa Yeager


#boastfulness #boasting #equality

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.


Gertrude Stein


#bad #bad luck #boasting #conviction #deepest

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.


Christopher Hitchens


#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case