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Big boast, small roast.
English Proverb
Do not boast about your wealth if you are a father.
Madagascan Proverb
Those away from the battlefield boast about their swords.
Kurdish Proverb
You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.
Croatian Proverb
It is usual of a person found guilty in a trial to boast that he would press his case further.
Nigerian Proverb
Boast during the day; be humble at night.
New Zealander Proverb
Great boast. little roast.
Dutch Proverb
It is one thing to boast, another to fight.
Latin Proverb
Boast to a stranger, complain only to your friends.
Yugoslav Proverb
Never boast -- you might meet someone who knew you as a child.
Chinese Proverb
He who cannot boast cannot succeed.
Chinese Proverb
A man who is putting on his armour for war should not boast like a man who's taking it off.
African Proverb
Bad to do evil, but worse to boast about it.
American Proverb
Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what the day may bring forth.
American Proverb
Do not boast of a thing until it is done.
American Proverb
A farmer does not boast that he has had a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season.
Nigerian Proverb
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
Dutch Proverb
Don't boast when you start out, but when you get there.
Russian Proverb
Don't boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day will bring.
Jewish Proverb
Do not boast of a thing until it is done.
Albanian Proverb
It is the boast of every juju priest that unless he dies.
Nigerian Proverb