Last words
Either that wallpaper goes or I do -- The supposed last words of Oscar Wilde
"I must begin Sanskrit tomorrow." -- Last recorded words of Herbert Coleridge, 31, the first editor of what would become the Oxford English Dictionary. Coleridge, who was working on the letter A at the time, contracted a fatal chill following a walk in the rain to an unheated meeting of the Philological Society.
WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD -- Kurt Vonnegut's suggested last words of humans to be carved perhaps on the Grand Canyon for "flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever."
"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa
"Is it the fourth?" Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826
"Hold me up; I want to shit." - Walt Whitman
"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub" - Conrad Hilton
"I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is used." - French grammarian Dominique Bouhours
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