Ancestry - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2500<![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501<![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2502<![CDATA[There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2503<![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504<![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2505<![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506<![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2507<![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508<![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2475<![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476<![CDATA[The nobler the blood the less the pride ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2477<![CDATA[The wisdom of our ancestors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2478<![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2479<![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480<![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2481<![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2482<![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2483<![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2484<![CDATA[Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2485<![CDATA[It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2486<![CDATA[I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2487<![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents Ont ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2488<![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2489<![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2490<![CDATA[Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then his pedigree ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2491<![CDATA[No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2492<![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2493<![CDATA[The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2494<![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you." - Iphicrates, ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495<![CDATA[Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. [Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2496<![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497<![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498<![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499