Heirs Quotes - Page 2

• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Long

  7 Copy quote

• Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Action, Owners

  7 Copy quote

• Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hope, Expectations, Bankers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.72

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Science, Vegetarian

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Men, Joy

  7 Copy quote

• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Apes

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Truth, Blessing

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.368

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Money

  9 Copy quote

• What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

  Horace

  Share, Rescue

  Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Summer, Short Life, Self

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.181, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Writing, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.229, Storey Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, World, Affliction

  7 Copy quote

• Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

  Horace

  Succeed, Wave

  4 Copy quote

• Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Cooking, Widows

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Men, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

  8 Copy quote

• Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Memories, Son

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.64

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

  Juvenal

  Wealth, Profit, Ill

  4 Copy quote

• It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was and as God is man may become. That does not signify that man will become God. I am sorry to say, and yet it is a truth, that not many men will become what God is, simply because they will not pay the price, because they are not willing to live up to the requirements; and still all men may, if they will, become what God is, but only those who are heirs of the celestial glory shall ever be possible candidates, to become what God is.

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Sorry, Men, Pay The Price

  6 Copy quote

• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
  [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
  Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
  Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

  Ovid

  White, Black, Deceit

  4 Copy quote

• As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Leaving, Genius, Letters

  Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101

  4 Copy quote

  Show source