Quotes
Quotes about Inheritance
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on which the early apologists laid so much weight, was all ex post facto. No one beforehand could have conjectured a tenth of it. But without the background of Jewish prophet and psalmist, of Jewish national history, it would be hard to understand Jesus. If prophet and historian and legislator did not in type and enigma foretell in detail the story of his life, he was none the less their heir. None the less was he their heir in that he was not in bondage to his inheritance, but... a "minister not of the letter but of the spirit", and the whole of his activity lay "in newness of spirit". Without conjecturing what he might have been on another soil or of another stock--a type of guesswork always futile in history--we have to recognize the... immense spiritual wealth that lay ready to his hand.
As to honorâyou knowâit's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
