Inheritance quotes
110 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance."
"When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel."
"Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed."
"What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours."
"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
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"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."
"Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more."
"For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen."
"Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold."
"To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions"
"To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather."
"My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir."
"How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time."
"You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God."
"Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance."
"Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants."
"I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent."
"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
"English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform."
"The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir."
"I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them."
"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
"Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?"
"Service is no Inheritance."
"Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance."
