Anonymous Quotes

A great many family trees were started by grafting.

He that boasteth of his ancestors, confesseth he hath no virtue of his own.

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.

When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies… But when God made the Eagle, He declared, “The blue sky is the limit- build your own house!”… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem […]

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.