"They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…"
General John B. Sedgwick’s last words, 1864
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
~ W. H. Auden ~
Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!
~ Thomas F. Healey
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do! Oscar Wilde
“Is Adams still alive?”
– Thomas Jefferson (I think)
Aghrrrrrr!!! aseymayo!!! that was the quote I was looking for. I’m the Oscar Wilde freak!!!
On a tombstone…
“I told you I was sick.”
“Bugger Bognor” – George V
"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult” – Edmund Gween (stage actor)
“Good night” – Lord Byron. The last is perhaps a contrast to an otherwise rather exciting life.
The idea, it has seemed to me, is to follow the tone set by Dylan Thomas:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
“The nourishment is palatable.”
– President Millard Fillmore, Inventor of the Bathtub
(Joke! JOKE! Please, no links to Cecil’s column about Fillmore NOT installing the first bathtub in the White House, having a hand in creating the concept of the bathtub, or ever even having taken a bath at all.)
Always been my favorite, and one I plan to steal when I die. Even if it’s in a plane crash.
“Leave me alone…I’m all right!”
HG Wells
I think you got it bass-ackwards. Adams said “At least Jefferson lives!” Right after Jefferson died and right before Adams died.
Probably, I wasn’t sure it was right to start with. 
“I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
- Joe DiMaggio
(when asked by one her friends aaround her deathbed: “What is the answer?”)
"What is the question?" Gertrude Stein
Oh, and lest we forget the line spoken by many a would-be daredevil:
"Watch this!"
TN*hippie,
You took mine kinda. I was gonna say…
Hey ya’ll! Watch this!!
Any dead redneck
I think somebody has Gary Larson’s Off-The-Wall Farside Calendar for 2000. This comic appeared for Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th of August.
“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
–Karl Marx to his housekeeper.
I know this isn’t a real quote, but it’s a funny one. So I shall chuckle…heh heh heh. Hey, DeathLlama, I finally remembered what movie I’d heard it quoted in–Real Genius with Val Kilmer.
Tell them I said something
Santayana