“They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.” DoeHas BeensBodyBigsRunningAbleUsedDiesPayGoneDyingTaxesBeatsPercentFortuneYour BodyExpensiveEmsOver YouAssetsInheritanceDroppingUndertakerInheritance Tax Author:Will Rogers
“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.” MenYearsAgeDiesFallHouseConditionsBuildingFortuneOld AgeThirtyFiftyThirty YearsThirty Years Old Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.” IfsGivingNightDiesWealthFireSeaHonorFortunePreservesRoughDecaySlipperyRough Seas Author:Francis Quarles
“Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.” IfsDiesFortuneGrievingBootsGood Fortune Author:Maynard Owen Williams
“... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.” IfsDiesFortuneHungerHungryGood Fortune Author:Micaela Flores Amaya
“Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.” MenDeathDiesDyingLuckyFortuneHappyNot Happy Author:Herodotus
“It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.” IfsMenShouldLongDiesWiseRevolutionAll ThingsFortuneSlaveSeriesPursuitTitlesGreat MenAncestryDescentEpitaphTopsy Turvy Author:Seneca the Younger