Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
Contributed by: Zaady
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bern Williams
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Source: Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.