Nora Roberts Quotes

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.