Your favorite final words

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 521

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  08/12/13 - 19:48 #2

  Jefferson Lives!

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  Relly Posts: 3,469

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  08/12/13 - 19:50 #3

  Spike Milligan's: "I told you I was ill" on his headstone.

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  irishfeen Posts: 10,025

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  08/12/13 - 20:15 #4

  Thomas Russell (21 November 1767 – 21 October 1803) knowing he was about to be sentenced to death spoke from the Dock.

  I look back to the last thirteen years of my life, the period with which I have interfered with the transactions of Ireland, with entire satisfaction; though for my share in them I am now about to die—the gentlemen of the jury having, by their verdict, put the seal of truth on the evidence against me.....
  
  ... From the time I could observe and reflect, I perceived that there were two kinds of laws—the laws of the State and the laws of God—frequently clashing with each other; by the latter kind, I have always endeavoured to regulate my conduct; but that laws of the former kind do exist in Ireland I believe no one who hears me can deny ....
  
  ... Standing as I do in the presence of God and of man, I entreat him to let my life atone for the faults of all, and that my blood alone may flow

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  Arcana Posts: 37,521

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  08/12/13 - 20:25 #5

  I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... [laughs] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...

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  08/12/13 - 20:29 #6

  Not that notable in history so I wont mention the person, but the quote was so beautiful..... "oh what a lovely sky"

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  08/12/13 - 20:31 #7

  Adam Faith is stretching the criterion somewhat, but his reported last words are as true today as they were when he died:"Channel 5, it's all s*** isn't it?"

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  08/12/13 - 20:34 #8

  Bugger Bognor, by George V. Sadly an urban myth, but I would have loved that to have been true.

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  08/12/13 - 20:39 #9

  'Those French invaders should be a bit more careful where they fire their arrows, they could have someone's eye out'
  
  King Harold - Battle of Hastings

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  Archie Duke Posts: 1,610

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  08/12/13 - 20:51 #10

  " Don't worry, those Frenchie guns will never hit us from that dist........."

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  Si_Crewe Posts: 40,202

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  08/12/13 - 20:53 #11

  "What Arrow?"
  
  George Armstrong Custer.

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  LakieLady Posts: 19,722

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  08/12/13 - 20:58 #12

  Some general or other said "They couldn't hit an elephant from that distance" just before he got shot, which has always tickled me.

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  08/12/13 - 21:14 #13

  "I can't smell gas!"

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  08/12/13 - 21:27 #14

  "Watch this!!!"

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  Raquelos. Posts: 7,734

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  08/12/13 - 21:36 #15

  The Emperor Vespasian:
  
  "Oh! I think I'm becoming a god!"
  
  A cynic to the end:)

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  vosne Posts: 14,131

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  08/12/13 - 21:39 #16

  The Emperor Penguin - "Oh look, a polar bear. On holiday".

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  Takae Posts: 13,555

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  08/12/13 - 21:53 #17

  Sir Winston Churchill - "I'm so bored with it all."
  
  The most haunting would be the one from a young girl, talking to her mother on radio, just before she was killed when her father and a pilot's aircraft crashed: "Do you hear the rain? Hello, do you hear the rain?"
  
  Edit: Jessica Dubroff, a seven-year-old pilot trainee.

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  Mystic Dave Posts: 1,180

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  08/12/13 - 22:10 #18

  "Sh*t! What was that? The mayor of Hiroshima
  
  The American general was Sedgwick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick

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  Bungitin Posts: 5,356

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  08/12/13 - 22:21 #19

  "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" Oscar Wilde?

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  Lockes Posts: 6,568

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  08/12/13 - 22:49 #20

  Ok not my favourite but as sad as this mans situation was it did make me..........well gasp
  
  Death row inmates last words
  
  
  'someone needs to kill my trial attorney'
  
  
  also another one.
  
  
  "I think that governor's phone is broke. He hadn't called yet."

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  SJ_Mental Posts: 16,138

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  08/12/13 - 22:56 #21

  Hold my beer!

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  08/12/13 - 23:12 #22

  "what do you mean, the tape recorder's broken?"

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  08/12/13 - 23:13 #23

  SJ_Mental wrote: »

  Hold my beer!

  Hold it yourself! :mad::p

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  08/12/13 - 23:14 #24

  Relly wrote: »

  Spike Milligan's: "I told you I was ill" on his headstone.

  
  This gets mentioned in every single one of these types of threads. It's just not funny any more.

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  Lockes Posts: 6,568

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  08/12/13 - 23:17 #25

  KMKYWAP wrote: »

  This gets mentioned in every single one of these types of threads. It's just not funny any more.

  
  speak for yourself, it ,makes me laugh

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  08/12/13 - 23:54 #26

  Ramon Narvaez (Duke of Valencia) - "I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot" in reply to a priest's question.

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