Estates quotes
51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything."
"Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content."
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate."
"I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great."
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"He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate."
"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."
"It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning."
"If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it."
"To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-."
"The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market."
"We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers."
"That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."
"When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling."
"The press is the fourth estate of the realm."
"Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value."
"Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art."
"I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate."
"Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets."
"Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir."
"Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?"
