Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed!
Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Ethel Watts Mumford, ( 1878-1940), US Playwright, novelist, writer; She was a heavy producer of plays, vaudeville sketches, novels, short stories, joke collections, songs, poems, and articles. She also painted and illustrated books