“Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give”
Bible
“You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.”
Robin Gibb
“The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.”
Russian Proverb
“Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He who boasts much can do little”
African Proverb
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
