“ Our democracy was created by men who fought for the right to vote so that their descendants could exercise their right not to vote. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 1.1K
“ All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 886
“ The Father and His Sons A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks… ”
- Aesop- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 874
“ Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
- 1.2K
“ CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ”
- H.F. Hedge- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ”
- Francis Herbert Hedge- Copy
- 3K
“ God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things. ”
- Norman O. Brown- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
- 1.5K
“ What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 2.2K
“ When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. ”
- Theodor Geisel- Copy
- 1.5K
“ What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. ”
- Thomas Walsingham- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 714
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4