WILL AND TESTAMENT

Related Subject: Inheritance

1. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles who now will be my rewarder.—BUNYAN, Pilgrim's Progress
   

2. Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.—C. C. COLTON
   

3. A will is a solemn matter, even with men whose life is given up to business, and who are by habit mindful of the future.—WILLISTON FISH, A Last Will
   

4. You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what you make me wish for.—MARTIAL
   

5. But thousands die without or this or that,
   Die, and endow a college or a cat.—POPE, Moral Essays
   

6. A fat kitchen makes a lean will.—Proverb
   

7. What thou givest after thy death, remember that thou givest it to a stranger, and most times to an enemy; for he that shall marry thy wife will despise thee, thy memory and thine, and shall possess the quiet of thy labors, the fruit which thou hast planted, enjoy thy love, and spend with joy and ease what thou hast spared and gotten with care and travail.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH
   

8. Let's choose executors and talk of wills.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II