"Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral,……" — Charles Caleb Colton

More Bequeath Quotes

This quote is filed under Bequeath Quotes, one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to… — Bernard Lown
• As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which… — Thomas Paine
• Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They… — Karl Marx
• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato
• Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity.… — Cyrus the Great
• Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily… — Paul Dudley White
• To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his… — Unknown Author
• The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to… — Henri Lefebvre
• The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the… — Henry Demarest Lloyd
• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task… — Martin Luther
• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the… — William Shakespeare
• God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those… — John Ruskin

See all 26 Bequeath Quotes »