For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches. . . Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body. . . Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.
She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science
To take estrogen or not to take estrogen: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; at first the studies say 'twill end The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion - For then they say 'twill cause us all to die Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub; For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about What doctors might be saying come next week?
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege. ' Then he hugged his wife, Teresa, heir to the multi-million dollar Heinz food fortune.