Ancestry

(111 votes)   A man is his own best ancestor.

Tiberius
Roman emperor

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(155 votes)   Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Russian Proverbs
Sayings of Russian Origin

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(287 votes)   Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(154 votes)   Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(375 votes)   Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(257 votes)   From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverbs

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(134 votes)   Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(274 votes)   He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(264 votes)   Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(148 votes)   High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Pietro Metastasio
1698-1782, Italian Poet

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(109 votes)   I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

W. S. Gilbert
1836-1911, British Librettist

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(113 votes)   If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic

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(132 votes)   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.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(140 votes)   Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

Hitopadesa
600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra

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(171 votes)   Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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