“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”

“Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.”

“Life is a banquet and most poor s. o. b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame”

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”

“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”

“Tommy locked his doors, armed his security system, replaced all the 9-volt batteries in his smoke detectors, made sure the gun in his dresser drawer was loaded, and went to bed where, before falling asleep, he recited a psalm from memory, with an emphasis on one line in particular: “yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me...””

“Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.”

“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”

“What softer voice is hushed over the dead?
Athwart what brow is that dark mantle thrown?
What form leans sadly o'er the white death — bed,
In mockery of monumental stone,
The heavy heart heaving without a moan?”

“It ’s no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.”