He that boasteth of his ancestors, confesseth he hath no virtue of his own.
Ancestors Quotes
Good wine needs no bush. (As You Like It)
So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver’s issue, as the prince’s son.
My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
Confound these ancestors. They’ve stolen our best ideas!
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
