Last Will and Testament Quotes

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.

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

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Death should not be a taxable event.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

I was the depository of the will of the Mexicans

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

If the husband of a woman die, his wife may take her husband's patrimony

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

I plan to die at my desk.

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.

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.