Introduction

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

-William Shakespeare

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

-Alfred the Great (849 - 910 A.D.),

The ladies have to go first... Get in the lifeboat, to please me... Good-Bye, dearie. I'll see you later.

-John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912),
The richest man in the world during his time.

My name and memory I leave to man's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and to the next age.

-Francis Bacon (1561-1626),Statesman and philosopher.

Pity me not. I die as a man of honour ought, in discharge of my duty. They indeed are objects of pity who fight against their king, their country and their oath.

-Pierre du Terrail, Chevalier de Bayard (1476-1524)

For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death.

-Saint Thomas Becket (1811-70), Archbishop of Canterbury.

But I have to. So little done. So much to do.

-Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Inventor of the telephone

I lingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heat and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

-Emily Bronte (1818-48),English Novelist.

Be strong and of good courage and do it; fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee: He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

-David, ( d. 1015 B.C.), King of Isreal.