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Great Families Of Yesterday We Show, And Lords, Whose Parents Were The Lord Knows Who.
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Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
-- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
-- The True-Born Englishman, Part i, Line 1
Related:
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there
And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation....
And without partiality, a woamn of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God's creation.
-- Daniel DeFoe...
Rush Limbaugh? No Thanks-My Parents were from different families.
Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Corsair, Canto i, Stanza 1...
We, my Lords, may thank Heaven that we have something better than out brains to depend on.
-- Lord Chesterfield to the House of Lord...
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others....
MARK, MARKY I don't know what it is about these people who not only have first and surnames starting with the same letters, but also have the nerve to get famous with those names.
I guess their parents were all alliteration enthusiasts....
Selma: Remember when we were kids, we used to dream about our ideal husbands?
Who knew the dream would come true for one of us. [Marge looks disappointed] Oh, come on!...
Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 109...