Infamous Last Words                                                                                                                               

 

Here in lie the reputed last words of various folks.  Are they really the last words?  I don't know and don't really care.  In most cases, I wasn't there when the subject expired.  I think they're funny or interesting, or both.  Email me if you have something you think I should add.  

Kit Carson:  "I sure wish I had time for one last bowl of chili." Oscar Wilde:  "This wallpaper is killing me.  One of us has to go."
Gen. John Sedgwick: "Why they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--" during the Battle of Spotsylvania John Wesley Harding:  "Four sixes to beat!" moments before he was shot in the back while playing dice in a saloon.
Leonardo da Vinci: "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." Oscar Wilde: "I'm dying beyond my means," while drinking champagne on his death bed. (This guy either said a lot or died often)
Beethoven: "I shall hear in Heaven." Marie Antoinette: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon," after stepping on the toe of her executioner.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said
something.
~ Pancho Villa, d. 1923

Martin Luther: "I am still catholic."
Charles Darwin: In this system of natural selection, I am not fit to live, and therefore, I die.
Will Rodgers:  I told em I was sick.
Brahms: If there is anyone I have not offended, I apologize.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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