Ethel Percy Andrus Quotes

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

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

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

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?

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

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?

There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.