Inheritance Quotes - Page 2

• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Boys, Class

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.261, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Progressive Taxation, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3154, Madison & Adams Press

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• For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

  Rene Char

  Hands, Really Great

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• A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

  Juvenal

  Heirs, Enjoy, Thirds

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• To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Educational, Born, Stills

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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

  Money, People, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.269

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• I would rather make my name than inherit it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Attitude, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

  Armand Hammer

  Spiritual, Father, Legacy

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Names, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Believe, Parent

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• Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Death, Father, Loss

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.69, FastPencil Inc

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• I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Son, Dollars

  Andrew Carnegie (2017). “How to win fortune: and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.23, FV Éditions

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• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Power, Heirs

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• An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Love

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Men, Hatred

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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

  Country, War, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.49

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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

  Money, Women, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2004). “Little Women”, p.212, Collector's Library

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• It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Watches

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• Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Choices, Generations

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• Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Henry Cabot Lodge

  Fall, Civilization, Land

  Speech Against the League of Nations, patriotpost.us. August 12, 1919.

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• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

  Roy Jenkins

  Heirs, Distrust, Taxes

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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

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hurt, Accomplishment, Want

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, Past

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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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

  Funny, Money, Tired

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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