From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.
Anonymous Quotes
Great birth is a very poor dish at table.
A great many family trees were started by grafting.
He that boasteth of his ancestors, confesseth he hath no virtue of his own.
So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.
From our ancestors come our names; but from our virtues, our honors.
Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies… But when God made the Eagle, He declared, “The blue sky is the limit- build your own house!”… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem […]
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
Only in America – do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store.
