Controversy Quote by Frances Osborne

“What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.” quote by Frances Osborne — Download Open image

“What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Frances Osborne

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption…

Frances Osborne

Image

Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to…

Frances Osborne

Image

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but…

Frances Osborne

Image

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or…

Frances Osborne

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more…

Frances Osborne

Image

Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains…

Frances Osborne

Image

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them…

Frances Osborne

Image

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Frances Osborne

Image

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by…

Frances Osborne

Image

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes…

Frances Osborne

Image

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

Frances Osborne

Image

When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected…

Frances Osborne

Image

Explore all 13 Frances Osborne quotes

More Controversy quotes

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of…

Erwin W. Lutzer

Image

As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of…

Steve Inskeep

Image

My pride is the length of time I have worked in the industry without any major controversy.

Sajid Nadiadwala

Image

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Image

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Dennis Rodman

Image

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

Walter Martin

Image

Sometimes as a player you do not want to get into a controversy.

Sourav Ganguly

Image

Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to…

Bruno Latour