It is a classic Irish proverb, and has been attributed to many but none conclusively. It is part of the poem or proverb:
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Heather Field and Rick Price
Benet wrote "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in 1937.
'The Devil's Arithmetic' was written by Jane Yolen .
Jane Yolan wrote The Devil's Arithmetic.
George Bernard Shaw wrote "The Devil's Disciple"
He wrote his less famous plays and some long poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Before that, nobody knows.
The author of Toad Heaven is Morris Gleitzman.
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Bryan Adams wrote a power ballad titled "Heaven." It appears on the albums A Night in Heaven (movie soundtrack, 1983) and Reckless (Bryan Adams album, 1984).
Eddie and Alex Van Halen wrote the music for Running With Devil. David Lee Roth wrote th lyrics. This was the usual system for all their production.
Christians believe that heaven is a place of happiness because people are with God and with everybody they love. Some Christians think there the only ones going to heaven but most of us don't believe that. The Bible says that anyone who loves knows God and is from God - but it doesn't say you have to be a Christain to get to heaven.
Washington Irving