QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…

John Adams (1735-1826, American President (2nd))

Courage! I have shown it for years.  Think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793 French Queen)

Now comes the mystery.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827, German composer)

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank (1849-1926, American horticulturist)

The fog is rising.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)

My work is done why wait.

George Eastman

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

O. Henry (1862-1910, American writer)

More light!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679, British philosopher)

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson

This is the fourth?

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))

Let the tent be struck.

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870, American confederate army commander)

Drink to me.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish artist)

Lord, let me live until I die.

Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius.  Will you remember to pay the debt?

Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)

What is the answer?… [Silence]… In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]

Pancho Villa (1877-1923, Mexican revolutionary)

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))

Go away, I'm all right!

H.G. Wells (1866-1946, British-born American author)

The best of it is, God is with us.

John Wesley (1703-1791, British preacher, founder of Methodism)

And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)

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