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He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Say not that you
-Anon.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
-Louisa May Alcott
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
-Honore de Balzac
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
-Orlando A. Battista
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And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
-Bible
Luke 12, verses 13
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A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
-Bible
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
-Charlotte Bronte
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
-John Bunyan
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
-Edmund Burke
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
-Andrew Carnegie
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
-Theodore L. Cuyler
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All heiresses are beautiful.
-John Dryden
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
-Thomas Fuller
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
-J. Paul Getty
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
-William Hazlitt
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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
-Clarence H. Hincks
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It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
-Kin Hubbard
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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
-Juvenal
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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Books about Inheritance
