Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons cant sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan Category: Right, Rightness
