# Most famous parting words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923 "2007-03-21T21:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/21 "2007-03-23T04:07:57Z")
“Thuh, thuh, thuh, thuh, that’s all, folks!” - Porky Pig (and others, probably) \*Beep, beep!" - Roadrunner ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/22 "2007-03-23T04:31:26Z")
So long and thanks for all the fish. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/23 "2007-03-23T05:53:40Z")
Of course I checked-it’s unloaded. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/24 "2007-03-23T05:55:55Z")
Hey Bubba-hold my beer and watch this shit! ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/25 "2007-03-23T06:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > OH SHIT! Final words on cockpit voice recorder ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/26 "2007-03-23T06:47:02Z")
\*Qualis artifex pereo \* - the last words of the Emperor Nero, commonly translated as “what an artist dies in me”. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/27 "2007-03-23T06:47:27Z")
Stay on target…STAY ON TARGET…[explodes] -[Porkins,](http://www.wildyams.com/blog/archives/porkins.jpg) the obese X-wing pilot from _Star Wars._ ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/28 "2007-03-23T06:55:03Z")
Two from Douglas MacArthur: “I shall return.” “Old soldiers never die…” yada yada I forget if it was John Adams or Thomas Jefferson. One said of the other on his death bed, “At least [other] stills lives.” ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/29 "2007-03-23T06:59:06Z")
[Nathan Hale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale): I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. [Breaker Morant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant): Shoot straight, you bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/30 "2007-03-23T07:00:26Z")
“Then I’ll see you in _Hell_!” –as Han rides off on his tauntaun “I know.” –as Han is about to be frozen ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/31 "2007-03-23T07:03:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] [Nathan Hale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale): I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. [/QUOTE] Actually, the full quote was “I only regret I have but one life to lose for my country. And that is the life of my wife, Obesity Prudence Hale. Come here hon… this man wants to show you ajdklajd alj alkj df” ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/32 "2007-03-23T08:06:39Z")
“Lady, you just shot me!” - Sam Cooke ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/33 "2007-03-23T09:03:20Z")
H. G. Wells (who foresaw the atomic bomb) - “I told you so. You _damned_ fools.”\* \*Not his dying words, but in the preface to the 1941 reprint of **The War in the Air** Wells suggested this ought to be his epitaph. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/34 "2007-03-23T10:19:44Z")
Adios… Motherfucker! (It’s an old joke) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/35 "2007-03-23T10:39:02Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] … Noted western character Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, CO. He woke up and asked for a glass of whiskey. After drinking it, he said, “This is funny” and died. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > On 8 November 1887, [Doc](http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws1.htm) awoke clear-eyed and asked for a drink of whiskey, which he drank with enjoyment. He looked at this bare feet and said, “This is funny.” > [@](#): > > [This is funny](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words#H). > o Who: Doc Holliday > o Doc Holliday was a consumptive gunfighter. He always thought, and perhaps hoped, that he would die in a fight or “with his boots on”. He died in a hotel bed from tuberculosis. These last words were uttered after seeing his feet with boots off. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/36 "2007-03-23T10:42:12Z")
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s last words: ‘Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life’. I go mushy every time I think of that. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/37 "2007-03-23T13:37:06Z")
Lytton Strachey: “If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/38 "2007-03-23T15:05:25Z")
Composer Richard Wagner, “The Doctor and my Wife.” Important to keep your priorities straight when time is short. ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/39 "2007-03-23T17:48:44Z")
Alexander Graham Bell married one of his deaf students when he was a professor of voice physiology at Boston U. His wife Mabel was a stubborn total oralist and when he was dying, she said “Don’t leave me”. Alexander Graham Bell spelled “No” into her palm. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/40 "2007-03-23T18:01:17Z")
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