Famous Last Words Quotes
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I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind. (Quote by - Gary Cooper)
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads. (Quote by - Spencer Silver)
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. (Quote by - Pierre Pachet)
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. (Quote by - Irving Fisher)
Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. (Quote by - Charles H. Duell)
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. (Quote by - H. M. Warner)
The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978. (Quote by - Dan Cook)
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way. (Quote by - James Whale)
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. (Quote by - Lord Kelvin)
I am still progressing. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Renoir)
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright. (Quote by - Orville Wright)
What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense. (Quote by - Pierre)
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck. (Quote by - George Sanders)
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. (Quote by - George)
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. (Quote by - Lupe Velez)
A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... (Quote by - Lawrence Welk)
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. (Quote by - Charles Frohman)
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. (Quote by - Sadi)
Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop. (Quote by - John Baptiste Dubois)
Cheer up, children, I am all right. (Quote by - Franz Joseph Haydn)
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. (Quote by - George Eastman)
Good people are always so sure they're right. (Quote by - Barbara Graham)
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. (Quote by - Marechal Ferdinand Foch)
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. (Quote by - Robert E. Howard)
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. (Quote by - John Spenkelink)
Wonderful, wonderful this death. (Quote by - William Etty)
Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you. (Quote by - Saint)
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. (Quote by - Chris Hubbock)
They tried to get me - I got them first! (suicide by drinking Lysol). (Quote by - Vachel Lindsay)
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. (Quote by - Sir Walter Raleigh)
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. (Quote by - Nicolas-sebastien Chamfort)
I have tried so hard to do right. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)
All my possessions for a moment of time. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannot tell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Quote by - Ispwo Mukika Crowfoot)
I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. (Quote by - Leon Czolgosz)
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. (Quote by - Alfred The Great)
One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before. (Quote by - Phoebe Care)
I shall look forward to a pleasant time. (Quote by - John Hancock)
Don't worry, it's not loaded. (Quote by - Terry Kath)
I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally. (Quote by - Freddie Prinze)
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. (Quote by - Leonardo Da Vinci)
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. (Quote by - King David)
Beautiful. (in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.). (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important. (Quote by - Sylvia Plath)
I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered. (Quote by - Sir Issac Newton)
Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
