To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.
Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.
(a.) Pert.
People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.
Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.
That was not sex. That was naked poetry.