FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Quote: Thomas Jefferson -- still surv… Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA

Quote: Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Author: Marie Antoinette 1755-? Queen of France

Quote: Now comes the mystery. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Quote: Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Author: Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827, German Composer

Quote: I don't fell good. Author: Luther Burbank 1849-1926, American Horticulturist

Quote: The fog is rising. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet

Quote: My work is done why wait. Author: George Eastman

Quote: More light! Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. Author: O. Henry 1862-1910, American Writer

Quote: I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher

Quote: Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. Author: Stonewall Jackson

Quote: This is the fourth? Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

Quote: Let the tent be struck. Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander

Quote: Drink to me. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

Quote: Lord, let me live until I die. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

Quote: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

Quote: What is the answer?… [Silence]… In that case, what is the question? Author: Gertrude Stein 1874-1946, American Author

Quote: Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa] Author: Pancho Villa 1877-1923, Mexican revolutionary

Quote: It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. [Dec. 14, 1977] Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA

Quote: Go away...I'm alright. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author

Quote: The best of it is, God is with us. Author: John Wesley 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism

Quote: And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed] Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit