Inheritance Quotes
25 quotations about Inheritance
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
All heiresses are beautiful.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Die and endow a college or a cat.
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
No legacy is so rich as honestly.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.
Authors on Inheritance
Orlando A. Battista
Bible
Andrew Carnegie
John Dryden
Thomas Fuller
J. Paul Getty
William Hazlitt
Clarence H. Hincks
Kin Hubbard
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Niccolo Machiavelli
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Alexander Pope
Ruth E. Renkel
John Ruskin
Saying
Thomas Scott
William Shakespeare
Publius Cornelius Tacitus