"I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering." - W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." - Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

"He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another." - Seneca, Hercules Furens

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors." - Voltaire

"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under ground." - THOMAS OVERBURY, Characters