Boasting of glory does not make glory.
What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Least doers are the greatest boasters.
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
