Inheritance
» “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
» ”To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”
– Honore De Balzac
» ”The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
– Orlando A. Battista
» ”A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.”
– Bible
» ”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
» ”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
» ”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
» ”I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.”
– Andrew Carnegie
» ”There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
– Hodding Carter
» ”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
» ”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
» ”All heiresses are beautiful.”
– John Dryden
» ”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
» ”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
» ”The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.”
– J. Paul Getty
» ”The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”
– William Hazlitt
» ”Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.”
– Clarence H. Hincks
» ”It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.”
– Kin Hubbard
» ”A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.”
– Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
» ”Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.”
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
» ”Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
» ”Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
» ”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
» ”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
» ”The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
» ”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
» ”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
» ”Die and endow a college or a cat.”
– Alexander Pope
» ”He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.”
– Yiddish Proverb
» ”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
– Ruth E. Renkel
» ”An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.”
– John Ruskin
» ”It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.”
– Saying
» ”A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.”
– Thomas Scott
» ”No legacy is so rich as honestly.”
– William Shakespeare
» ”Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.”
– Publius Cornelius Tacitus
» ”I would rather make my name than inherit it.”
– William M. Thackeray
» ”To inherit property is not to be born — it is to be still-born, rather.”
– Henry David Thoreau
» ”What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.”
– Source Unknown
