Inheritance Quotes

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor’s virtues.

He who waits for a dead man’s shoes is in danger of going barefoot.

The child of a tiger is a tiger.

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.

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.

And Happy always was it for that son – Whose father for his hoarding went to hell. (Henry VI)

Woman: You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child. Shaw: What if the child inherits my body and your brains?

To inherit property is not to be born – is to be stillborn, rather.