Anonymous Quotes

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

No one can be reasonable and angry at the same time.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.

From our ancestors come our names; but from our virtues, our honors.

Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.

A man can’t very well make for himself a place in the sun if he keeps continually taking refuge under the family tree.

A man who boasts only of his ancestors confesses that he belongs to a family that is better dead than alive.

Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool of himself.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.