Posted on 12/14/2006 8:12:08 AM PST by Loud Mime
After reading one quote from our own Founder's Quotes thread, I thought a few more would prove entertaining:
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) "I have a terrific headache." ....he died of a cerebral hemmorage.
Allen, Ethan (1738-1789) "Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait." ...after being told that the Angels were waiting for him.
Saroyan, William (1908-1981) "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" .....yeah, I'll talk like that on MY deathbed.
Sedgwick, John "Uncle John," General (1813-1864) "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--." ....As the general spoke his last words, he was shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter.
Cleveland, Steven Grover (1837-1908) "I have tried so hard to do right."
Czolgosz, Leon (1873-1902) "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime" said the man who shot President McKinley
Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963) "That's obvious." "Kennedy had just responded to the Texas governor's wife's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you" when the first of Oswald's bullets struck him in the head."
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) "This is the Fourth?" "Both Thomas Jefferson and his old friend and rival John Adams died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson smiled with satisfaction and returned to sleep. He died just after noon on the 4th."
Lady Nancy Astor, 1964: Am I dying or is this my birthday? ...when she woke during her illness and found all her family around her bedside. ~~
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"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
Oscar Wilde: "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
I'm bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965
Less famous people, but the most famous and most common "Last Words" uttered by pilots as their plane is about to crash is "Oh sh**."
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"Either these curtains go or I do." - Oscar Wilde
"Oh Sh*t" The last words of almost every airline pilot just before the fatal crash.
Dont forget the classic
"Hey Y'all, hold my beer and watch this..."
Bobby Lee's last words: "Strike the tent!"
Ha! Beat you by 1 minute, 2 seconds!
Heey ya'll...hold muh beer and watch this!!!!!!
"What was THAT?"
Mayor of Hiroshima
"Where did all these Indians come from?"
Custer
Oh Sh*t (LOL)
How could I have forgotten that? Here, hold my beer while I... LOL.
It's hard to beat: "Hey Bubba, hold my beer, WATCH THIS!!"
"Hey, just watch THIS!"
Winner of every Darwin award
Once, while sky diving and burning below 800 feet with a streaming pile of twisted garbage above me, I thought I was dead. I checked my altitude and realized that nothing could be done; all I thought was "here it comes." The chute popped open at about 100 feet.
But I did say "oh sh***" when I went into a spin on the Interstate...I was going 75 mph."
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