Motivational Quotes

Inheritance

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

- Renkel, Ruth E.

Best Quotes about Inheritance

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Balzac, Honore De

12.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Carter, Hodding

18.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.

Hincks, Clarence H.

20.

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Shakespeare, William

21.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Dryden, John

22.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Saying

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 weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

31.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.