A Quote by Don Marquis

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.

Don Marquis

Quote Topics

Ancestors Blood Boast Descendants Family Finish Much Never Noticed Often Rather Start Tell Tells Than Too Too Much Will Would

Quote Author

Don Marquis
American - Novelist
July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Clarence Darrow

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

Sam Childers

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

Martin Luther

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Louis L'Amour

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

E. W. Howe

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

Ben Jonson

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

Winona LaDuke

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

John Dewey

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

Edward Gibbon

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

A Quote by Don Marquis

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors