notable quotes

• "Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to have control of your estate." -Woody Allen

• "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill

• "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen

• "A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family." -Thomas Scott

• "When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
  -Ambrose Bierce

• "I will be conquered; I will not capitulate." -Samuel Johnson

• "The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." -J. Paul Getty

• "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living." -Emily Bronte

• "The object of estate planning is to die well." -John Poyser

• "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -Winston Churchill

• "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes" -Benjamin Franklin

• "Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject." -Hannah Arendt

• "Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him." -Johann Kaspar Lavater

• "There is a strange charm in the thoughts of good legacy, or the hopes of an estate which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends." -Miguel De Cervantes

• "A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family." -Thomas Scott