Sunday, October 30, 2005

Famous last words

 "I've never felt better."    — Douglas Fairbanks.

 "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."    — Oscar Wilde (1854—1900), Irish-born British dramatist. As he lay dying in a drab Paris bedroom.

 "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something..."    — Pancho Villa (1877—1923) clutching a comrade.

 "Oh my, it's very beautiful over there."    — Thomas Edison (1847—1931).

 "My work is done. Why wait ?"    — George Eastman (1854—1932), US inventor and industrialist, suicide note.

 "If this is dying, I don't think much of it."    — Lytton Strachey (1880—1932), British writer.

 "Die ? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."    — John Barrymore (1882—1942), US actor.

 "Shoot me in the chest !"    — Benito Mussolini ( -1944).

 "Go away... I'm alright."    — H. G. Wells (1866—1946).

 "I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes."    — W. C. Fields (1880—1946), US comedian. Said during his last illness.

 "Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think."    — Dylan Thomas (1914-53), Welsh poet.

 "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."    — Humphrey Bogart (1899—1957).

 "God bless... God damn."    — James Thurber (1894—1961), US humorist.

 "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."    — Winston Churchill (1874—1965).

 "Damn it... Don't you dare ask God to help me."    — Joan Crawford ( -77), actress, to her housekeeper who had begun to pray aloud.

 "Why yes — a bulletproof vest."    — James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad.

 "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."    — Thomas J. Grasso, executed 1995.

 "Hey guys, watch this !"    — Todd Poller (2001), who tried to swallow a live perch.

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