Inheritance Quotes

Inheritance Quotes & Sayings

These inheritance quotes and inheritance sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. 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


An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. - John Ruskin


Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. - Johann Kaspar Lavater


As to honour, you know, it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. - Joseph Conrad


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


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. 'Mahatma' Gandhi


Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. - Karl Kraus


They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. - Edmund Burke


Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne