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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.


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DON MARQUIS Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
DON MARQUIS Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve...
EDWARD W. HOWE None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve...
E. W. HOWE The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to m...
SANOBER KHAN I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, l...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Popularity is no boast. From politics to fashion, history has shown popularity is, too often, just a...
KERRY CUE Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are thi...
AMANDA BOUCHET I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
E. V. LUCAS I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I’d rather hang out with real ...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married
MOLIERE If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myse...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
GEORGE W. FOOTE Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking mean...
ERALDO BANOVAC I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ...
TREVOR MCDONALD I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am r...
ZIGGY MARLEY A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
HENRY S. F. COOPER You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ance...
HENRY LOUIS GATES So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors ha...
WALTER LIPPMANN Never boast of your shortcomings, for this will bring you down, and make the road to success even to...
A.J. CHILSON The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been...
THOMAS SOWELL So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUS Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...
HORATIO NELSON WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.

LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE ...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tel...
OSCAR WILDE All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, includ...
JAN C. TING One who hunts rabbits cannot boast to one who hunts wolves.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELL We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid...
TOBA BETA A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad stat...
RUSSELL D. MOORE There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
EDMUND BURKE My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
KANGANA RANAUT I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
LARRY NEAL I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
LARRY NEAL I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there do...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft ...
RICHARD DAWKINS A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
ALEXANDER POPE I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ t...
CRISS JAMI It is often others who make us realize the importance of money in life than we ourselves and hardly ...
ANUJ SOMANY The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.
BERN WILLIAMS I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
J.K. ROWLING Man is nothing that he should boast about,but if at all he should boast,it should be about the fact ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological supe...
KIM IL-SUNG No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It w...
OSCAR WILDE The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.
VIKRANT PARSAI I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row...
LEONARD COHEN It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler ...
HENRY BROUGHAM We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
SAMUEL BECKETT If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who p...
HARRY KEMP Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable on...
CRISS JAMI In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...
JUDY GARLAND While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would...
GASTON LEROUX Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.
JOHN STEINBECK Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose ...
OLIVER HUDSON I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard
IRISH SAYINGS I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
AFRICAN PROVERB Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
PROVERB I often call it crisis management rather than case management.
KATHIE HIERS Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced...
JOHN CAUDWELL We have set aside eight hectares of land for the museum. It will boast various attractions, includin...
IBNU SUBIYANTO Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will n...
EDMUND BURKE We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here.
MICHAEL CRESPI Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
STEPHEN HAWKING My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
ERIC CANTONA Never boast of your perfection,because imperfection may just be knocking at your door.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A river can only boast when it is full of fish.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplis...
CURTIS JACKSON I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rathe...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS I never saw a Purple Cow; I never hope to See One; But I can Tell you, Anyhow, I'd rather See than B...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS My family would tell me when I had too much on. They would joke with me about it.
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MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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