Quotations and Literature Forum

Hey all!

I thought it might be fun to find some famous and/or humorous last words. Like These:

"What does this button do?"
Unknown

"Good-bye. I'm leaving because I'm bored"
George Saunders

What have you?

_________________
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
-Miss Piggy

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distan..."
Last words of Gen. Reynolds, battle of Gettysburg.

_________________
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
-Miss Piggy

Abelard, Peter (1079-1142)
"I don't know."
Peter Abelard was the most noted philosopher of the first half of the 12th century. I guess its pretty bizzar that his last words would be "i don't know"

Astor, Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964)
"Am I dying or is is this my birthday?"

_________________
He who would have the fruit must climb the tree

God, please forgive me for my sins, I never meant them......

_________________
Ishrat Noor Khan

'Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.'

-Groucho Marx

"I don't feel good." Luther Burbank

_________________
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

My favorite is one you have all heard. It's not funny, but I like it a lot.
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country"
The exact quote and who ACTUALLY said it are debated, but I love the quote any ways.

_________________
We hold these truths to be selve evident, but evidence is not ownership. Those words are not a decree that we have life, liberty, happiness. Only an iron clad statement that it is ours if we are willing to do all that is necessary to take it.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"

Karl Marx

_________________
"The Truth may be out there but the lies are in your head"
"I tend to think if God wanted us to believe in him he'd exist."

"Watch what i can do!!"

Signed
Alex Bashaw

No, it's not loaded.
Yes, I have repaired the gears.
I was joking.
Cut the blue cable, not red.
Do you want to know something?
Hey, throw me the axe.
It's not sharp.
I'm the expert here.
This is not one-way street.
What a realistic maquette of a grenade!
Only over my dead body.
What's this button for?

_________________
"Follow me," the wise man said, but he walked behind...

"Amen"
-John Paul II

"Great,and i thought i was going to attend the funrel of Mr.joe beer tomorrow"

Note-:Mr joe beer Is a random name chosen for the quote so no body alive or dead be hurt by this quote,because you may chose it as excuse to grab another bottle of beer,don't ya.

Jas Malik

But what I really regret is that I'm giving it now!"
And then began the groveling. ~ America (the book)

_________________

Thanks Gil. I have never heard that before. That's kind of funny.

_________________
We hold these truths to be selve evident, but evidence is not ownership. Those words are not a decree that we have life, liberty, happiness. Only an iron clad statement that it is ours if we are willing to do all that is necessary to take it.

It is attributed to Nathan Hale, but what he actually said is in dispute. A British officer at Hale's hanging did not report those words but said that "He behaved with great composure and resolution...."

A 1777 newspaper article reported Hale as saying that "if he had ten thousand lives, he would lay them all down, if called to it, in defence of his injured, bleeding country." Four years later another newspaper story quoted Hale's last words as: `"... my only regret is, that I have not more lives than one to offer in its service."

Hale's more famous words were first reported by General William Hull (1848), a friend of Hale's who was not at the hanging. Hull claimed he heard it from a British officer.

The words were probably inspired by Joseph Addison, a popular playwright at the time. Addison's play Cato (1713) included the line, "What a pity is it/That we can die but once to serve our country!" Hale, a schoolteacher, was known to be familiar with Addison's works.