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- This isn't Hamlet, you know, It's not meant to go into the bloody ear.
- Lawrence Olivier, last words spoken to his nurse, who spilt water over him while trying to moisten his lips, Reported by his son Tarquin
- They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
- last words of Gen. John Sedgwick 1864
- Is it the Fourth?
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)
- And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide.
- Christine Hubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast
- ...the fog is rising.
- Last words of Emily Dickinson
- Now comes the mystery.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), last words
- Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
- Ludwig von Beethoven, last words
- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
- ...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
- George Will - Newsweek, 2/22/93
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