And Happy always was it for that son – Whose father for his hoarding went to hell. (Henry VI)
Inheritance Quotes
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.
The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
A man’s qualities are not divisible among his heirs.
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Fabius has bequeathed you nothing, Bithynicus, although you used to present him yearly, if I remember right, with six thousand sesterces… By dying he has at least saved you six thousand.
