(62 quotes found)
“There was always someone ready to cut the heir with a knife”
Terry Pratchett
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy”
Charles Fillmore
“Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?”
Thomas Traherne
“Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep”
Benjamin Franklin
“What with your friend you nobly share; At least you rescue from your heir”
Horace
“He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues”
Proverb
“Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.”
Frederick Henry Hedge
