Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. – Danish proverb 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
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
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866), “Religion in Disease,” 1865 Category: Philosophical
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Category: Conformity & Nonconformity
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. – Arthur Henderson Category: Peace
