I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Inheritance Quotes
He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor’s virtues.
He who waits for a dead man’s shoes is in danger of going barefoot.
The child of a tiger is a tiger.
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
And Happy always was it for that son – Whose father for his hoarding went to hell. (Henry VI)
Woman: You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child. Shaw: What if the child inherits my body and your brains?
To inherit property is not to be born – is to be stillborn, rather.
The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
