Quotes About Inheritance

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Root is my last name.

All the potential emperors are assholes, and they're all related to each other, it hardly matters which one wins. So

Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.

But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.

He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary.

therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary.

above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides