Grandsire Quotes

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings

If one day, a bhailach ... ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards. — Diana Gabaldon

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. — Jonathan Swift

Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour. — Raymond E. Feist

My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase. — Diana Gabaldon

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. — William Shakespeare

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase ... — William Shakespeare