Famous last words

[Boojatta]

"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702


Did anyone ever speak these last words? "I just thought of a remarkably simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but I fear that I don't have enough time to explain it."

[City of Mills]

1. "Do not worry, it's not loaded"

- Terry Kath, 1978

[Danger Mouse]

2. delete

dupe

[Danger Mouse]

3. My personal favorite famous last words belong to Eugene O'Neill.

'I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and goddamn it - died in a hotel room.'
November 27, 1953.

[Boojatta]

4. Hegel:

"Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me."

[Nevernose]

5. Great website for famous last words:

http://www.sanftleben.com/Last%20Words/lastwords-r-index.html

Bruce, Lenny (Leonard Schneider) (1925-1966)

"Do you know where I can get any shit?"

Sorry, though, the answer to your question is not there.

[DarkTirade]

6. Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

Oscar Wilde

[The Straight Story]

7. He can't handle this Mick, send him home

and "Come pick me up later, ok?"

My last impressions of my mom in her delusional state.

[smedwed]

8. Hardy/Littlewood

Not quite last words but mathematical.
When undertaking a dangerous sea crossing Hardy wrote a postcard to Littlewood (2 famous English Mathematicians)claiming he had proved Riemann's hypothesis, but hadn't enough room to enclose the proof - in the spirit of Fermat's margin. He believed that God wouldn't let him die until he'd told someone the proof. (despite being an atheist)
He survived.

[Wetzelbill]

9. "This is funny" -Doc Holliday

:)

[Rhythm]

10. Last words of Pancho Villa

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

[EstimatedProphet]

11. "Hey y'all, watch this!"

Bubba

[SoxFan]

14. ...

[KatyMan]

19. More accurately...

"Hey ya'll...hold my beer and watch this..."


:D

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. "there's a bat here in the office" -Miss Millie

;-) ;-) ;-)

[MonkeyFunk]

13. "Nobody shot me"

-Frank Gusenberg, when asked by police who shot him 14 times with a machine gun in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

[iverglas]

15. "I thought so"

-- Aldous Huxley.

Or so it was common knowledge that he said just before he died, back when we were doing the same drug he was said to have done as he was dying ...

[madinmaryland]

16. There are only a handful of Indians at Little Big Horn.

General Custer.

[SteppingRazor]

18. I doubt those were, technically, his last words.

His last words were probably more along the lines of, "Holy Mother of God! Look at all those Indians!"

[SteppingRazor]

17. William Blake:

Though better known for his poetry, Blake spent his last days constantly retouching an engraving. Finally done with it, he said, "There! that will do! I cannot mend it."

His wife started to cry, thinking those were his last words, so he said, "Stay, Kate! Keep just as you are. I will draw your portrait, for you have ever been an angel to me."

And then he died.

[Orrex]

20. Oscar Wilde is credited with a wonderful line

"Either these drapes go, or I do."

Alas, it's at least semi-apocryphal.

[kwassa]

21. Merv Griffin ... "I'll not be back after these messages"

as reported in today's obituary story, not his last words, but possible epitaph.

[Aristus]

22. John Adams, July 4th, 1826:

"Jefferson still survives..."

Referring to Thomas Jefferson, who had, in fact, died earlier that same day.