Famous Quotes - Tags - Inheritance

  • a gold key, your half of a woolen mill,
    twenty suits from Dunne’s, an English Ford,
    the... More
  • A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse... More
  • All heiresses are beautiful. More
  • An ancient estate should always go to males. It is mighty foolish to let a stranger have it... More
  • And all to leave what with his toil he won
    To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. More
  • And not an hour ago you hadn’t a penny to warm your pocket. Did someone die and leave you a pot... More
  • Anyone could lick a child all over as if it were a puppy or a kitten—but where had that thought... More
  • But thousands die without or this or that,
    Die, and endow a college, or a cat:
    To some,... More
  • Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
    She is the hopeful lady of my earth. More
  • Gude grant that thou may aye inherit
    Thy mither’s person, grace, an’ merit,
    An’ thy... More
  • Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from... More
  • I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway. More
  • I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. More
  • In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in... More
  • Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small... More
  • Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. More
  • My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females... More
  • My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him... More
  • Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch... More
  • One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to... More
  • Our Luke shall leave us, Isabel; the land
    Shall not go from us, and it shall be free;
    He... More
  • People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to... More
  • Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. More
  • The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir. More
  • The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to... More
  • The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. More
  • Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and... More
  • There are three major offenses against filial piety of which not producing an heir is the worst. More
  • There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which... More
  • There was a look in the eyes of the Brangwens as if they were expecting something unknown, about... More
  • To nothing fitter can I thee compare
    Than to the son of some rich pennyfather,
    Who,... More
  • What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the... More
  • When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when... More
  • Your coat in my closet,
    your bright stones on my hand,
    the gaudy fur animals
    I do not... More
  • “My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
    My Lady smiled graciously. “It... More

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