Quotes of Heritage - somelinesforyou

“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ No legacy is so rich as honestly. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ”

- Nick Nuessle

“ People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. ”

- Peter Gay

“ To go into the Hall of Fame, it continues the legacy of the Dallas Cowboys. ”

- Troy Aikman

“ Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ 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. ”

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

“ The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ”

- George Brandes

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

- Thomas Fuller

“ The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. ”

- J. Paul Getty

“ Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living. ”

- Jamie Foxx

“ If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral. ”

- Gregory Nunn

“ 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

“ I would rather make my name than inherit it. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Die and endow a college or a cat. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. ”

- David Bowie

“ After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ”

- Edward Hopper

“ I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. ”

- Elinor Wylie

“ I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. ”

- Ibn Gabirol

“ I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. ”

- Herman Wouk
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