The man who has not anything to bost of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

- Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters -

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Breed is stronger pasture.

- George Eliot -

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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

- Moliere -

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Look homeward, Angle, now, and melt with truth.

- Milton Lycidas -

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And flights of angels sing thee to the rest.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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We are like angels till our passion dies.

- Decker -

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Anger is short madness.

- Horace Epistles -

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To be angry is revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

- Pope -

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

- Bacon -

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Anger is one of the sinews of soul.

- Fuller -

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To be furiousIs to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood, the dove will peck the estridge.

- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra -

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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

- Porteous -

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Nothing is good as it seems beforehand.

- George Eliot -

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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..

- Pascal -

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It's a melancholy indeed that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and thatan increase of our passions is but an inlet to new disquitetudes.

- Goldsmith, The Good Natured Man -

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Do not anticipate trouble, of worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

- Franklin -

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

- Holmes -

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Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.

- Disraeli -

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Costly the habit as the purse can buy,But not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

- Swift, Hamlet -

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She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

- Swift, Polite Conversation -

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