Inheritance Quotes
Best selected inheritance quotes
by some famous people of their times. These quotes
about inheritance will motivate and inspire you and will make you much wiser about
the subject.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for. Marcus Valerius Martial
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. Gregory Nunn
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Mahatma Gandhi
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Niccolo Machiavelli
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. William Hazlitt
I would rather make my name than inherit it. William M. Thackeray
No legacy is so rich as honestly. William Shakespeare
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. John Ruskin
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. Kin Hubbard
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing succeeds like ones own successor. Clarence H. Hincks
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral. Yiddish Proverb
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. Andrew Carnegie
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. Honore De Balzac
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. Juvenal
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. John Bunyan
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. Ruth E. Renkel
The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. J. Paul Getty
What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs. Anonymous
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Lord Byron
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate. Alexander Pope
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. Henry David Thoreau
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. Johann Kaspar Lavater
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. Thomas Scott
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. Johann Kaspar Lavater
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold. Lord Byron
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. Don Marquis
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. Orlando A. Battista
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. Edmund Burke
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. Thomas Fuller
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. Charlotte Bronte
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. Louisa May Alcott
A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. Bible
Die and endow a college or a cat. Alexander Pope
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity. Theodore L. Cuyler
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. Miguel De Cervantes
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Hodding Carter
All heiresses are beautiful. John Dryden
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. Saying
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