Estates Quotes · Page 5

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

— Barbara Corcoran

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

— Blaise Pascal

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in…

— Dwight L. Moody

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

— Michelle Obama

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

— Stephen Fry

You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time.

— Donald Trump

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

— William Shakespeare

It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and…

— Ricky Hatton

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and…

— Benjamin Franklin

I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves,…

— Akira Mori

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks,…

— Martin Feldstein

I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means…

— Hetty Green

I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a…

— Ralph Goings

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from…

— Philip Sidney

The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of…

— Warren Buffett

The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's…

— Michael Hudson

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a…

— Seneca the Younger

In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his…

— Waverley Root

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter…

— David Remnick

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful…

— William Cowper

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

— Andrew Carnegie

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

— Barbara Corcoran

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

— Jacques Necker

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is…

— Tony Abbott

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

— Jane Porter

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

— Vanilla Ice

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

— Roger Ebert

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

— Jasper Fforde

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

— Kellyanne Conway

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

— Erma Bombeck

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

— Boethius

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

— James E. Talmage

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

— Frank Zappa

Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

— Cecil Frances Alexander

As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment.

— Robert Kiyosaki