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Infamous Last Words |
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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. | |