Quotes with inheritance

  • You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
  • An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
  • Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
  • 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.
  • Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Conrad As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Karl Kraus Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Hazlitt 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
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Olin Miller Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barry Commoner It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Albert Claude Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Herbert Hoover My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Alberto Moravia Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Alan Watts 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
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ruth E. Renkel Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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  • Isadora Duncan The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Brandes The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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  • Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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