Tuesday 9 May 2017

Bragging Sayings and Quotes



Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ann Landers






The feller that brags about how cheap he heats his home always sees the first robin.

Kin Hubbard





He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.

Lisa Edmondson





If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walt Whitman





Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack.    

Spanish Proverb





He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Leonardo da Vinci






It's not bragging if you can back it up.    

Muhammad Ali





A braggart is recognized by his headgear.

Namibian Proverb





You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.    

John Nance Garner





The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.    

Criss Jami





Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.    

William Shakespeare





You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Frank McCourt





If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau






The dog who barks the loudest is not always the best watcher, neither are braggadocios the most valiant.

William Scott Downey





The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.    

Evan Esar





Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

John Steinbeck





Mankind in general seem to take about as much pride in bragging of their faults as of their virtues.

H. W. SHAW





Bragging is an ailment, Bragging is a blight; Bragging is an attribute Of a silly wight.

RALPH M. THOMSON





Don't brag. It is not the whistle that moves the train.    

D. V. Rangarajan





With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.

Evan Esar





Now I'm not too keen about bragging on myself but you must admit I was the best.

Kim S. Jones





It ain't bragging if you can do it.    

Dizzy Dean





Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.    

William Feather





Great boast, small roast.    

Chinese Proverb





There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.    

Edgar Watson Howe





Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain





It's as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining.    

Chinese Proverbs





Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Ellen Gould White




Bragging saves advertising.    

American Proverbs





It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.    

Judith Martin





Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal





Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.    

Lord Chesterfield





It isn't what a man knows, but what he thinks he knows that he brags about.

George Horace Lorimer





For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles





Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel De Cervantes






Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Bible, Proverbs 27:1





Bragging: The patter of tiny feats.

Anonymous





A loaded wagon makes no noise.

Proverb





Empty vessels make most noise.

Proverb





The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground.    

Sir Thomas Overbury





There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Al Oliver





Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Isaac Asimov





A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Michel de Montaigne





Its not bragging if its true.

Sara Shepard





You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Frank McCourt





Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway





The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.    

Gene Brown





What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.    

Abraham Lincoln

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