Quotes about 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

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.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Lord Byron

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

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

— Thomas Fuller

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 meek shall inherit the earth, but not its 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

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Never say you know a man until 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

Die and endow a college or a cat.

— Alexander Pope

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

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

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin