It's not that they're resisting the urge to brag.
: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, , And often is his gold complexion dimmed; ; And every fair from fair sometime declines, ,, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; ; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, , Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, ; Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, , When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
" After Bian Que left, Huan Gong said to his subjects around him: ,: "These doctors always like to treat people who are not ill in order to brag about their superb medical skill.
Apple used to brag its computers aren't as vulnerable as Windows PCs to viruses, but the company quickly changed its marketing page after a Trojan affected thousands of Mac computers in 2012.
" As Wittels put it: "Oprah, you don't gotta brag.
He is a little boy who is not talking yet," when my asking questions met with his blank-eyed response in a restaurant; how many times I would brag, "He loves to play on his own for hours at a time and he never gets into trouble," when Wyatt was playing games that no one else could conceive of, let alone join in while other boys in the park were playing together or in small groups huddled around a sand pail or toy truck.
They brag most who can do least.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So
Grades are just silly letters that give the vain people something to brag, and the lazy people something to fear.
Klaus, who wrote a 2003 book, 'Brag!
Here I had found a man not made from dust; one who had no narrow boasts of birthplace or country, one who, if he bragged at all, would brag of his whole round globe against the Martians and the inhabitants of the Moon.
To brag of the good you have done Will never impress anyone.
To brag a bit, I would describe it as having lush bushes and slender bamboo with streams running merrily around several tiny hills.
But Hans knew how to answer this, and he said: Thunder and lightning, you're one to brag, But at dragon hunting you always lag.
