Vaunts Quotes

#1. shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty, 26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield. 27"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges

Anonymous

#2. Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

Khalil Gibran

#3. He who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;

Lao-Tzu

#4. Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Francis Bacon

#5. True love is humble, thereby is it known;
Girded for service, seeking not its own;
Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Abraham Coles

#6. The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Alexander Pope

#7. The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Joe Moore

#8. It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?"
"I know who you are, but ... " Maia looked dazed. "You look so ... so ... shiny.

Cassandra Clare

#10. The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

Warren Christopher

#11. For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.

Victor Hugo