Estates Quotes - Page 2

• I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Hate, Blessing, Titles

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.164

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• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Real, Home

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

  Edward Young

  Wisdom, Clouds, Titles

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.227

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• Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Clever, Inspiration, Ends

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

  Steve Case

  Real, Ideas, Car

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• IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

  Robert Walpole

  Gentleman, Liberty, Should

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• Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

  George Jean Nathan

  Real, Patriotic, Political

  Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)

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• As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Long, Cash, Investment

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• The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

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• In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Men

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• Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Important, Three, Journalism

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841).

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• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

  Eli Broad

  Real, Thinking, House

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• Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

  William Penn

  Men, Rights, Views

  First version of "Frame of Government", April 25, 1682.

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• Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Energy, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

  Robert G. Allen

  Real, Waiting, Property

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Men, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Hamburgers, Ifs

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• Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it's certainly at the core of most people's wealth. In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Real, Order

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Land, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1970). “The people's rights”, Jonathan Cape

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• Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

  Robert Wagner

  Coffee, Icons, Police

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• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Children, Humble, Plowing

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers 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, being not bred therein.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brother, Father, War

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• Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Voice, Important

  The Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1990.

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• The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

  Chris Van Hollen

  President, Pay, Matter

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Trade, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.2

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