#estate

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#calls #change #estate #good #great

This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters. Vases. Books. Knickknacks. Get rid of all that stuff. I mean, it is just beautiful. Beautiful. I love what you’ve done with this house. Make sure you put it all away.” ~Real estate agent (p.76) ↗

— Dominique Browning

#counter #decorate #house #kitchen #knickknack

I always keep a Ziploc bag in my pocket, and wherever I go I fill up my bag with dirt, because my goal is to be the largest land holder in the world by the time I'm 42. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #land-holder #real-estate #funny

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ↗

— Edward Albee

#bad #define #fact #good #good writer

I don't think estates are grim places. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#grim #i #places #think

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#end #estate #litigation #over #remains

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#equality

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. ↗

— John Dryden

#estate #go #gone #his #left

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? ↗

— Epictetus

#any #case #child #dead #deprived

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#beg #estate #had #i #journalists