(108 quotes found)
“He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral”
Yiddish Proverb
“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”
Ethel Waters
“Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.”
Elizabeth I
“I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.”
Woody Allen
“To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather”
Henry David Thoreau
“But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.”
Bible
“To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions”
George Orwell
“The meek may inherit the earth, but the other kind inherits the mortgage”
Noah Goldstein
“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one”
Augustine Burrell
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