Motivational Quotes

Inheritance

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Inheritance

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

Hubbard, Kin

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Renkel, Ruth E.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

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

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.

Hincks, Clarence H.

18.

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

Saying

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Dryden, John

32.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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