Estates Quotes - Page 14

• My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Book, Son

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.16, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

  Freema Agyeman

  Negative, Please, Journalist

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I want to be a successful landlord. I like real estate.

  2 Chainz

  Real, Successful, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

  Hugh Bonneville

  War, World, Collapse

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Funny, Travel, Real

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

  Jane Lynch

  Real, Fans, Agents

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• We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Scratches, Language, Holy

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• At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Men, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Order, Principles

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• A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Gentleman, Knees

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• An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Italian, Desire

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Journalism, Realms, Fourth

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Real, Long

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• We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Future, Age, Use

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• The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

  Juvenal

  Care, Riches

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• Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Editors, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Real, Towns

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• Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

  George Herbert

  Two, Bread, Wallets

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.228

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• [On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

  Dorothy Parker

  Real, Agents, Few Friends

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