Famous quotes containing the words eldest, surviving and/or son:
“Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“Never have anything to do with the near surviving representatives of anyone whose name appears in the death column of the Times as having “passed away.””
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:1.