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Quotes about inheritance
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. (Balzac Honore De)
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (Balzac Honore De)
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. (Balzac Honore De)
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. (Balzac Honore De)
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. (Balzac Honore De)
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. (Balzac Honore De)
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Balzac Honore De)
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. (Balzac Honore De)
All heiresses are beautiful. (Balzac Honore De)
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. (Balzac Honore De)
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. (Balzac Honore De)
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. (Balzac Honore De)
The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. (Balzac Honore De)
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. (Balzac Honore De)
Nothing succeeds like ones own successor. (Balzac Honore De)
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. (Balzac Honore De)
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. (Balzac Honore De)
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. (Balzac Honore De)
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. (Balzac Honore De)
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. (Balzac Honore De)
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! (Balzac Honore De)
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. (Balzac Honore De)
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. (Balzac Honore De)
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. (Balzac Honore De)
Die and endow a college or a cat. (Balzac Honore De)
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