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.