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Thread: Famous last words
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Truman White
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In the week we remember "It is finished!" what other famous last words come to mind?
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
There's an extra "http://" in that link.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
There's an extra "http://" in that link.
And you didn't correct it. Tch tch.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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General John Sedgewick - "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
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Moo
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Goethe: Mehr Licht! (more light}
Moo
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Lyda*Rose
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From the link -James Thurber: quote:
"God bless... God damn."
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Hilda of Whitby
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Apparently this is apocryphal, but I have always been fond of Oscar Wilde's last words, as he lay dying in a dumpy apartment in Paris with hideous wallpaper:
"This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go."
I also really like the dying words of General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
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Mere Nick
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"Hey guys, watch this!"
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"Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward."
Delmar O'Donnell
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Sir Kevin
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This is my epitaph; I likely will live another 30 years or beyond:
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Posted
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
This is my epitaph; I likely will live another 30 years or beyond:
If that's what you're having on your gravestone, then I think it gets the Puckoon response: Foolin' nobody but himself.
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blackbeard
Ship's Pirate
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Spike Milligan: I told you I was ill.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Mine would have to be 'She was always trying'.
I hope the Duke of Edinburgh goes down with something suitably pithy. Such as is his usual form.
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rolyn
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"Kiss me Hardy" ---- Lord Nelson.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Iain Banks has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. I reckon this quote is a pretty classy way of dealing with the shock:
"I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow."
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Kev - and this will be mine: "Here lies Karl: Liberal Backslider, idiot, heretic, and miserable sod. And if you thought he was pissed off when he was alive, you don't have a clue how he feels about being dead."
[ 04. April 2013, 13:41: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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The Mid
Officer and a gentleman
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"I am just going outside and may be some time" - Captain Oates' last words during Scott's British Antarctic Expedition.
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Truman White
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Epitaph rather than last words - on a gravestone in Ireland:
Here lies the body of Johnathan Mound
Lost at sea and never found.
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Percy B
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quote:
no .... Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though
Mgr Ronald Knox, - someone had suggested reading to him from his translation of Gospels, as he lay dying.
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Mary, a priest??
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L'organist
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...and I want no anniversary of death rubbish: I'll die in my own home, clothed, when I see fit.
My grandmother on 29th February, just before she slipped off her shoes to nap after lunch, never to awaken.
A lady who always got what she wanted.
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Sir Kevin
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Above, very good.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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rolyn
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"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Originally posted by L'organist:
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...and I want no anniversary of death rubbish: I'll die in my own home, clothed, when I see fit.
My grandmother on 29th February, just before she slipped off her shoes to nap after lunch, never to awaken.
A lady who always got what she wanted.
I've only just noticed the date she died - she really was a determined lady. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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L'organist
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W C Fields
"I would rather be living in Philadelphia"
... Actually, whether they were his last words is a moot point, but he did always say it was what he wanted on his gravestone; sadly, he didn't get his wish.
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Mudfrog
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Originally posted by rolyn:
"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.
Wow, those really are words of regret. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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G.K. Chesterton
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