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Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on :
 
In the week we remember "It is finished!" what other famous last words come to mind?
 
Posted by HCH (# 14313) on :
 
There is a web site full of such:

Famous Last Words
 
Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:

Famous Last Words

What's your fave?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:

Famous Last Words

There's an extra "http://" in that link.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
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.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
General John Sedgewick - "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
 
Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
Goethe: Mehr Licht! (more light}

Moo
 
Posted by Percy B (# 17238) on :
 
bugger Bognor

.....claimed to be George V's
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
From the link -James Thurber:
quote:
"God bless... God damn."

 
Posted by Hilda of Whitby (# 7341) on :
 
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."
 
Posted by Mere Nick (# 11827) on :
 
"Hey guys, watch this!"
 
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
This is my epitaph; I likely will live another 30 years or beyond:
 
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
quote:
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.
 
Posted by blackbeard (# 10848) on :
 
Spike Milligan: I told you I was ill.
 
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
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.
 
Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
"Kiss me Hardy" ---- Lord Nelson.
 
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
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."
 
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
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 ]
 
Posted by The Mid (# 1559) on :
 
"I am just going outside and may be some time" - Captain Oates' last words during Scott's British Antarctic Expedition.
 
Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on :
 
Epitaph rather than last words - on a gravestone in Ireland:

Here lies the body of Johnathan Mound
Lost at sea and never found.
 
Posted by Percy B (# 17238) on :
 
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.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
quote:
...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.
 
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
Above, very good.
 
Posted by Pulsator Organorum Ineptus (# 2515) on :
 
"I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies" - William Pitt the younger.
 
Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.
 
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
quote:
...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]
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
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.
 
Posted by Mudfrog (# 8116) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rolyn:
"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.

Wow, those really are words of regret. [Frown]
 


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