Quotes About Bequeath

Everything we have is not ours. And it will be inherited by another for a short time."

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

The dead man has no place in Parliament; he cannot bequeath his membership and he can never know for certain who will succeed him after his death.

I think there really are a lot of people in the world who probably feel like they've done so much in life, made so much of their talents and ambitions that they feel the need to bequeath it to someone.

I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

His family will obey his request to bequeath May, as long as we continue to adhere to my promise to Charles that we never contact them in any way.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.