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Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids? -- Hal Borland
Let no man's deathbed be a futon. -- Demetri Martin
I've always got my eye on my deathbed. -- Martin Freeman
When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made. -- Kristen Wiig
You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. -- Dolly Parton
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. -- Hugh Leonard
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business. -- Paul Tsongas
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. -- Woody Allen
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. -- Danielle Berry
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering. -- Patch Adams
I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that. -- Evelyn Glennie
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart. -- John Lahr
Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal. -- Kesha
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. -- Talulah Riley
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing. -- Anne Heche
Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could. -- Imelda May
I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did. -- Marie Osmond
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live. -- Morrie Schwartz
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. -- Pico Iyer
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.' -- David Rubenstein
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not. -- Randy Pausch
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. -- Stanislav Grof
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. -- Jacques Delors
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. -- Michael Huffington
When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them. -- Tom Ford
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.' -- Alan King
I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.' -- Candice Millard
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. -- W. C. Fields
America is on her deathbed. -- Louis Farrakhan
I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic. -- Broderick Crawford
On their deathbed men will speak true, they say. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. -- Alexander Pope
Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed. -- Michael Ian Black
Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed. -- Joseph Hall
Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life? -- Anthony Liccione
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. -- Chuck Palahniuk
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) -- Oscar Wilde
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. -- Norman Lock
No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business." -- Paul Tsongas
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes. -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had. -- Nicholas Lea
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed. -- Suze Orman
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. -- Marcus Aurelius
I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office. -- Joseph Stowell
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." -- Melvin Helitzer
I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.' -- Peter Lynch
Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. -- Rick Perlstein
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches -- Georges Cuvier
Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams. -- Derek Sivers
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. -- Hafez
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. -- Hafez
I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun! -- John Pawson
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed. -- George Jean Nathan
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are. -- Eckhart Tolle
Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive~? -- Louise Penny
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) -- Voltaire
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. -- Steven Pressfield
Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive? -- Louise Penny
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath. -- Gay Hendricks
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady.... -- Anne Sexton
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it. -- Heinrich Heine
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies. -- Christopher Hitchens
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed. -- Hannah More
When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. -- Lesley-Anne Down
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society. -- James Altucher
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.' -- Bruce Jenner
Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye. -- Steven Pressfield

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