From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. – Sir Thomas Overbore Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. – Scott Alexander Category: Business
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. – Samuel Smiles Category: Experience
A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn Category: Poetry
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Life
