
“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”
Source: Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”
“I leave this rule for others when I'm dead
Be always sure you're right — THEN GO AHEAD!”
Personal motto, on the title page.
Variants: Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.
As quoted in David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874) by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, who indicates that he also often used simply "Go ahead!" as a battle cry, and general assertion of determination.
Unsourced variants: Be always sure you are right — then go ahead.
Be sure you are right — then go ahead.
Always be sure you are right — then go ahead.
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
“I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.”
Source: Orphan Train