Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Betty Shabazz

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

William Shakespeare

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Roy Jenkins

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)

Jean de la Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Horace

What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Jason Furman

The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.