What is bread in the bone will come out in the flesh

Russian translation

То, что вскормлено в кости, проявится в плоти.
Наследственные черты не изменишь - они непременно проявятся.

Derivation

What is bread in the bone. Bread in the bone.

Variations

What is bread in the bone will (not) go out of the flesh.

Synonyms

The leopard cannot change his sports.
Nature will have its course.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Comparison

Горбатого могила исправит.
Волк каждый год линяет, да обычай не меняет.
Дураком родился, дураком помрешь.

Examples

"With wise and careful traning many of her faults may be cured," said uncle Wallace, pompously. "I doubt it," said Aunt Ruth, in a biting tone. "What's bread in the bone comes out in the flash. As for Douglas Starr, I think that it was perfectly disgraceful for him to die and leave that child without a cent" (Montgomerry)

It is rather the fashion in these days to scoff at hereditary vices, or hereditary virtues; but "what's in the blood will out in the flesh". (Smart)

"That Floy," old Ninn continued, "has been at you. A bad background, if ever there was one. What's bred in the child comes out in the woman. Don't believe a word of what she tells you." (Marsh)

"Well, what are you interested in?" "Money!" "Aha! What's bred in the bone, eh? Get something of it from your father, eh? Well, that's a good trait." (Dreiser)