Inheritance Quotes

“The genes are shuffled and dealt anew to each individual. The result is that the offspring has a new combination of characters.”

“It is the failure to keep in mind the far-reaching consequences of this Mendelian principle of segregation of the germ-cells that has been responsible for the persistence of the fallacious doctrine of the inheritance of acquired characters.”

“Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.”

“My father's a character. He's a character. I have a lot of my father in me.”

“The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”

“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”

“I am a living legacy to the leader of the band.”

“Along the road your rhythm led the way, and echoed in the songs I play.”

“He left me some pictures, some money and a lot of trouble.”

“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf.”

“A legacy is a thing a man is better without.”

“Where there's a will, there's a relative.”

“I'm the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.”

“The rich man's son inherits lands, And piles of brick and stone, and gold... But the poor man's son inherits strains of poetry and song.”

“Where there's a will, there's a relative.”

“The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.”

“A usuring father to be boiling in hell, and his son and heir with a whore dancing in his own house.”