When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In God’s kingdom we are not just people He saves but fellow heirs of all that the King has.” — Hugh Halter Copy Share Image
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately… I, on the other hand, had a… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim."… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to… — Frederick Victor Grey Wymark Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image