Kurt Vonnegut's are my favorite.

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Either that wallpaper goes or I do -- Supposed last words of Oscar
Wilde
I must begin Sanskrit tomorrow. -- Last recorded words of Herbert
Coleridge, 31, the first editor of what would become the Oxford
English
Dictionary. Coleridge, who was working on the letter A at the time

We probably could have saved ourselves, but were too damned lazy to try
very hard  -- Kurt Vonnegut's suggested last words of humans to be
carved perhaps on the Grand Canyon for "flying-saucer creatures or
angels
or whatever."

"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa

"Is it the fourth?" Thomas Jefferson on April 4, 1846

"Hold me up; I want to sheesh." - Walt Whitman

"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub" - Conrad Hilton

"I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is used." -
French grammarian Dominique Bouhours

"The check's in the mail" ---- Me  ;D

"Oh S**t!"
"Honey, this isn't what it looks like."
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing."




Cat

"Bugger Bognor" - The alleged last words of King George V

"Oh S**t!"
"Honey, this isn't what it looks like."
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing."




Cat



"watch this!"
"what's this do?"

Was it Karl Marx who said "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" ? I like that one.


And one of my favorites:

"Get my swan costume ready"
Anna Pavlova (the best ballerina of all times)

"Bugger Bognor" - The alleged last words of King George V


I fraggin' love KG-V!. Nice post.

"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark." .....O.Henry

"That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted." .....Lou Costello

"Tell my mother that I died for my country. I thought I did it for the best. Useless! Useless!" .....John Wilkes Booth

"I want that fifty bucks you owe me and I want it now." .....Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (Shot in a bar by a drunk.)

"Mozart." ....Gustav Mahler

"Is it the fourth?" Thomas Jefferson on April 4, 1846




Jefferson died July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence(which he wrote).  John Adams died the same day(he was supposed to write it, but convinced Jefferson to, believing Jefferson the better writer).  Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives", not knowing that Jefferson had died earlier in the morning.

Jefferson died July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence(which he wrote).  John Adams died the same day(he was supposed to write it, but convinced Jefferson to, believing Jefferson the better writer).  Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives", not knowing that Jefferson had died earlier in the morning.



I knew that.  :)



Cat

"I swear, that's never happened to me before"  :-\\

I knew that.  :)



Cat


I know, thought you would beat me to it.  I have McCulloughs John Adams from the library now  :)

I know, thought you would beat me to it.  I have McCulloughs John Adams from the library now  :)



I should have beat you to it but I had a senior moment (or is that a blond moment?  ??? ) and didn't even think of it when I first saw this thread. I have the book but believe it or not, haven't read it yet.  :-[



Cat

"Genade, genade! We kunnen er toch over praten."  ("Mercy, mercy! Surely we can talk about this.")

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh to his assassin, Mohammed B, who had already shot him 8 times at that point.

"Genade, genade! We kunnen er toch over praten."  ("Mercy, mercy! Surely we can talk about this.")

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh to his assassin, Mohammed B, who had already shot him 8 times at that point.
god, that's awful. :(

reminds me of quilty's death in "lolita."

Astor, Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964)

"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Here's a few good ones:


"This is the last of earth! I am content."
- John Q. Adams

"How were the recipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
- P. T. Barnum

"I can't sleep"
- James M. Barrie

"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished"
- Ludwig Van Beetovan

"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight"
- Lord Bryon

"That was a great game of golf, fellers"
- Bing Crosby

"A dying man can do nothing easy"
- Benjamin Franklin

"I die hard but am not afriad to go"
- George Washington

"For all eternity, I love you"
- James K. Polk (To the Mrs.)

"I have a terrific headache"
- F.D.R.

"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit"
- Jesus

"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit"
- Jesus



Didn't he say more 3 days AFTER he said this?



Cat