John Wesley Quotes

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

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 I wish for!

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

Posthumously means getting something after you’re dead, which is not as good as getting something while you are alive, but better than not getting anything at all.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

confession ran in the family.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...