Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.
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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
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Romans 9:5:
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
(NIV)
To them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be).
(AMP)
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
(KJV)
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He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
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