Estates Quotes - Page 26

• Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Long, Aging

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.163

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• A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Self

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.15

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• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Inheritance, Broads

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• Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Men, Games

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• At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

  Bo Sanchez

  Real, Firsts, Mutual Fund

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• The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Problem, Locals

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• Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

  Lawrence Wright

  Real, Faithful, Church

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

  Meredith Whitney

  Powerful, Media, People

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• I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

  Patrick Bet-David

  Real, Gold, Investing

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• It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Law, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Real, Racism, Mind

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• Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Believe, Pay, Ordinary

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• No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Children, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.373, Harvard University Press

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• Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Loneliness, Real

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, Mind, Ornaments

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• When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

  Philip Sidney

  Spring, War, Men

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• The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

  Philip Sidney

  Mind, Contentment, Miserable

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.163

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• A dead body was discovered this week on the grounds of a country estate owned by Queen Elizabeth. The queen said today she hopes this serves as a reminder to anybody on her staff that there is a right way and a wrong way to polish sterling silver.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Queens, Body

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• Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

  George S. Clason

  Men, Gold, Earning

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

  Guru Nanak

  Father, Son, Cake

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• Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Holiday, Mean, Phones

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• I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

  Chris Lilley

  Real, Obsessed, Renovation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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