Actually, I researched that earlier after seeing the John Adams miniseries and I could have swore the article said that Jefferson died later than Adams. I will check on that to be sure. It is quite uncanny, considering they had renewed their friendship in later years (earlier they had a falling out) and they wrote often to each other and became very close again.Originally Posted by jon1jt
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I just know on Hitchcock's tombstone it reads: "I'm in on a plot."
I think that is hilarious.
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
That's strange - I thought Leo Tolstoy's last words were:
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six" (refusing to return to the Orthodox Church which had once excommunicated him)
A few I like:
Francois Rabelais - "I am going to seek the Great Perhaps"
Alexandre Dumas (pere) - "I shall never know how it all comes out now"
George Bernard Shaw - "Sister, you are trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished"
Mine might be; "But I haven't had time to think of something memorable to say..."
Last words of Emily Dickinson " The fog is rising " .
My last words would have to be " My compliments to the chef ". On a serious note, my last words will be " I will miss you " !
that is awesome!!! thanks!
These aren't W.C. Field's last words but supposedly they are on his tombstone: "All things considered I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
I'm quite prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared to meet me is another question.
"God will pardon me, it is His trade" Heinrich Heine.
"On the contrary" Henrik Ibsen, after the nurse said he seemed a little better.
"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it" Lytton Strachey.
My deathbed quote.
What are you waiting for, a quote?
I wasn't aware that my grandfather was a Campbell's soup fanatic, but apparently his last words were:
"Mmmm Mmmm good," after his wife kissed him.
If I have the time and presence of mind to say something, I might say:
"What was all the fuss?"
Hi,
Those were the last words of Charlotte Bronte.
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls.
~~ Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855
MarkC
I am the author of Parmethia
These are the last words of one of my favourite poets:
"Thank God, it has come!" - John Keats
"I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine." -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul" -Franz Kafka
Marie Antoinette's were to say sorry to her executioner after she stepped on his foot.
"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
-Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian (this one is my favorite)
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"
-P. T. Barnum
"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."
-Eugene O'Neill
"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 Chubbock (an anchorwoman), and then she shot herself on live tv (gruesome, eh?)
"Cool it, brothers..."
-Malcolm X, to the guys that shot him.
For mine, I don't know. I guess I'd probably want to screw with people. I'll say something like "You guys! You guys! I see the light! Oh no... who would've thought that mormonism was the way to go?"
That, or it'll be something like "hey, you guys want to play lawn darts?" or "who wants to bet that I can get it up to 160 km/h?"
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 12-15-2009 at 02:31 AM.
__________________
"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature-
Voltaire
I am the author of Parmethia
"I kist thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss"-Othello
''I'd rather be in Philadelphia''
~~~ WC Fields.
Also used on his tombstone.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent
~ Isaac Asimov
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
