Famous last words
"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883
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"Nothing, but death."
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817
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"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
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"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957
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"I'm bored with it all."
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965
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"I am not the least afraid to die."
~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
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Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Last letter to her husband before her last flight.
KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
Last radio communiqué before her disappearance.
~~ Amelia Earhart, d. 1937
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"It is very beautiful over there."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931
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"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967
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"Let's cool it brothers . . ."
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.
~~ Malcolm X, d. 1966
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
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"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
my favorite
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519
