Motivational Quotes

Inheritance

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Inheritance

A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.

Bible

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.

Pope, Alexander

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Nunn, Gregory

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!

Martial, Marcus Valerius

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

Thoreau, Henry David

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Balzac, Honore De

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

Alcott, Louisa May

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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Marquis, Don

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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All heiresses are beautiful.

Dryden, John

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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.

Saying

20.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Ruskin, John

21.

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.

Hincks, Clarence H.

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He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Renkel, Ruth E.

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What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.

27.

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.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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.

Byron, Lord

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It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

Hubbard, Kin

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No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Shakespeare, William

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Carter, Hodding

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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.