You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.
—African Proverb
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
He who inherits a hill must climb it.
—Spanish Proverb
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
—Unknown
Absent people do not inherit.
—French Proverb
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Come for your inheritance and you may have to pay for the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
—Common Proverb
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
—John Bunyan (1628–88) English Puritan Writer, Preacher
It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
—Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) American Cartoonist, Humorist
A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar.
—German Proverb
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what you make me wish for.
—Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet
A good name is a second inheritance.
—German Proverb
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
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 (1803–82) American Philosopher
Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it.—What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Say not that you.
—Anonymous
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.
—African Proverb
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.
—African Proverb
Leave a Reply