- Absent people do not inherit.~ French Proverb
- A good name is a second inheritance.~ German Proverb
- A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.~ Thomas Scott
- A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.~ The Holy Bible
- Come for your inheritance and you may have to pay for the funeral.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.~ Karl Kraus
- 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
- He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.~ Yiddish Proverb
- He who inherits a hill must climb it.~ Spanish Proverb
- He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar.~ German Proverb
- If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.~ Gregory Nunn
- Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man’s funeral is usually Uncle Sam.~ Olin Miller
- In the division of inheritance, friendship stands still.~ Dutch Proverb
- It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.~ Kin Hubbard
- I would rather make my name than inherit it.~ William M. Thackeray
- Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- No legacy is so rich as honestly.~ William Shakespeare
- Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.~ Ruth E. Renkel
- The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.~ Orlando A. Battista
- The country clubs, the cars the boats, your assets may be ample, but the best inheritance you can leave your kids is to be a good example.~ Barry Spilchuk
- 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
- The graveyards are full of young lawyers, lost inheritance and young doctors.~ French Proverb
- The king inherits a country — the people only hard work.~ Malagasy Proverb
- The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.~ J. Paul Getty
- They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke
- Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.~ Congolese Proverb
- To get to know a friend, you must share an inheritance with him.~ German Proverb
- To inherit property is not to be born — it is to be still-born, rather.~ Henry David Thoreau
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.~ Honore De Belzac
- We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.~ Kenyan Proverb
- We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.~ Don Marquis
- What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.~ Goethe
- You inherit from the dead, not from the sick.~ Congolese Proverb
- You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.~ Theodore L. Cuyler
- You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.~ Theodore L. Cuyler
