Quote: To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist
Quote: The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. Author: Orlando A. Battista
Quote: A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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. Author: Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855, British Novelist
Quote: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. Author: John Bunyan 1628-1688, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. Author: Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist
Quote: There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Author: Hodding Carter
Quote: 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. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Theodore L. Cuyler 1822-1909, American Pastor, Author
Quote: All heiresses are beautiful. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: 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. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. Author: J. Paul Getty 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire
Quote: The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Nothing succeeds like ones own successor. Author: Clarence H. Hincks
Quote: It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. Author: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Quote: Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic
Quote: Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic
Quote: Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman
Quote: We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: 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! Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Gregory Nunn 1955-, American Golfer
Quote: Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin 1939-, American Journalist, Author
Quote: 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. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Die and endow a college or a cat. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin
Quote: Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. Author: Ruth E. Renkel
Quote: An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. Author: Saying
Quote: A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. Author: Thomas Scott
Quote: No legacy is so rich as honestly. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: I would rather make my name than inherit it. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs. Author: Source Unknown