Heir Quotes

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

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.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.