famous last words

[devrimci_kürt]

"Wait 'till I have finished my problem!" -- Archimedes of Syracuse (298-212 B.C.)

 

The ladies have to go first. . . . Get in the lifeboat, to please me. . . . Good-bye, dearie. I'll see you later." -- John Jacob Astor, IV (1864-1912)

 

You s.ns of bitches. Give my love to Mother." -- Francis "Two Gun" Crowley (1900-1931

 

"Shakespeare, I come." -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

 

"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here." -- Nostradamus (Michel de Notre Dame) (1503-1566)

 

 

 

 

http://www.ingilizce-ders.com/ingilizce-ders/quotations-ozdeyisler/last-words.htm

[tvp45]

"That fellow, at that distance, can't hit an eleplant."

 

General John Sedgwick, at The Wilderness, when warned an enemy sharpshooter was aiming at him.

[tomgwyther]

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

 

Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary bandit. after he was fatally wounded

[JohnB]

tvp45, I've always seen it written as;

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....."

 

"Shoot straight you bastards"

Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant 1902

[jimmydasaint]

I love this stuff. Apparently Cecil Rhodes, the great industrial pirate said with regret upon his deathbed the following words:

"So little done, so much to do." Rhodes, Cecil John (1853-1902)

According to an unflattering T.V. series about Rhodes, his actual last words were: " Turn me over, Jack." Hardly memorable...

 

I also love this one although it could hardly be called famous:

"Why yes, a bullet-proof vest!"

(Last request before the firing squad.)

Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) [American criminal]