# Famous Last Words
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 20, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065 "2000-08-20T17:27:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/1 "2000-08-20T17:27:52Z")
**"They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…"**
_General John B. Sedgwick’s last words, 1864_
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### Author:  [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/2 "2000-08-20T17:56:11Z")
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
~ W. H. Auden ~
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### Author:  [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/3 "2000-08-20T17:59:38Z")
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
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### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/4 "2000-08-20T18:00:38Z")
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do! _Oscar Wilde_
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/5 "2000-08-20T18:01:40Z")
“Is Adams still alive?”
– Thomas Jefferson (I think)
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### Author:  [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/6 "2000-08-20T18:12:55Z")
Aghrrrrrr!!! **aseymayo**!!! that was the quote I was looking for. I’m the Oscar Wilde freak!!!
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/7 "2000-08-20T18:30:32Z")
On a tombstone…
“I told you I was sick.”
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/8 "2000-08-20T18:51:09Z")
“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._
Full text: [http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/proud/proud2.html](http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/proud/proud2.html)
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/9 "2000-08-20T18:55:47Z")
“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.
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### Author:  [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/10 "2000-08-20T19:02:25Z")
“Leave me alone…I’m all right!”
HG Wells
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/11 "2000-08-20T19:13:27Z")
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> “Is Adams still alive?”
> – Thomas Jefferson (I think)
I think you got it bass-ackwards. Adams said “At least Jefferson lives!” Right after Jefferson died and right before Adams died.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/12 "2000-08-20T19:18:15Z")
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> \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \*
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> > [@](#):
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> > “Is Adams still alive?”
> > – Thomas Jefferson (I think)
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> 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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/13 "2000-08-20T20:17:53Z")
“I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
- Joe DiMaggio
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### Author:  [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/14 "2000-08-20T20:45:19Z")
(when asked by one her friends aaround her deathbed: “What is the answer?”)
**"What is the question?"** Gertrude Stein
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### Author:  [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/15 "2000-08-20T20:49:29Z")
Oh, and lest we forget the line spoken by many a would-be daredevil:
**"Watch this!"**
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### Author:  [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/16 "2000-08-20T21:10:00Z")
TN\*hippie,
You took mine kinda. I was gonna say…
Hey ya’ll! Watch this!!
Any dead redneck
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### Author:  [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/17 "2000-08-20T23:24:58Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \*
> \*\ ***"They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…"**
> _General John B. Sedgwick’s last words, 1864_
> \*\*
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.
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### Author:  [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/18 "2000-08-20T23:30:58Z")
“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
–Karl Marx to his housekeeper.
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### Author:  [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/19 "2000-08-20T23:46:11Z")
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> **I drank what?**
> _Socrates_
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.
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/20 "2000-08-20T23:52:42Z")
Tell them I said something
Santayana
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