INHERITANCE

Related Subjects: Will and Testament

1. The fool inherits, but the wise must get.—WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, The Ordinary
   

2. There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
   Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains!
   It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
   If any man obtains that which he merits,
   Or any merit that which he obtains.—COLERIDGE, The Knight's Tomb
   

4. Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.—LAVATER
   

5. A son could bear complacently the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.—MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
   

6. Lest, selling that noble inheritance for a poor mess of perishing pottage, you never enter into His eternal rest.—WILLIAM PENN, No Cross No Crown
   

7. He is no great heir that in­herits not his ancestor's virtues.—Proverb
   

8. Who wait for dead men's shoes shall go long barefoot.—Proverb
   

9. The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

10. I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.—RABELAIS, Will
    

11. Happy always was it for that son
    Whose father for his hoarding went to hell.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

12. To inherit property is not to be born—is to be still-born, rather.—THOREAU, Journal