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)

Pablo Neruda

La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)

Antonia Fraser

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

For the first time in 25 years, you truly have a wide-open seat without an heir apparent.

Oliver Goldsmith

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Jon Meacham

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Gail Collins

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Muhammad Iqbal

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.