Quotes About Legacy

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance

Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

When I have children I am going to make them watch the movie 2012 and tell them I survived that like a Boss!