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The Famous Last Words of Famous People

Posted on November 20, 2010 by

This, is the last of earth. I am content. – Adams John Quincy

For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. – Bacon Sir Francis

Let’s roll. – Todd Beamer

Don’t die like I did. – George Best

Work hard to gain your own salvation. – Buddha

Hallo, the bow is up… I’m going… I’m on my back… I’ve gone. Oh. – Donald Campbell

Let not poor Nelly starve. – King Charles II

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. – Erskine Childers

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. – Kurt Cobain

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone. – Oliver Cromwell

I do not believe in my death. – Salvador Dali

My God. What’s happened? – Diana, Princess of Wales

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.) – Isadora Duncan

Bugger Bognor! – King George V

Mehr Licht! (More light!) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize. – Joe Hill

On the contrary. – Henrik Ibsen

Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. – Hugh Latimer

Strike the tent. – Robert E. Lee

I’m shot. – John Lennon

I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan

This hath not offended the king. – Thomas More

Thank God, I have done my duty. – Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates

What do I tell the pilot to do? – Barbara Olson

Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do! – Lord Henry Temple Palmerston

I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to. – Luciano Pavarotti

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies. – William Pitt

Let me go to the house of the Father. – Pope John Paul II

I hope I haven’t bored you. – Elvis Presley

I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell. – Walter Ralegh

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. – Ken Saro-Wiwa

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – General John Sedgwick

“What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” – Gertrude Stein

If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it. – Lytton Strachey

Relax – This won’t hurt. – Hunter S. Thompson

One of us must go. – Oscar Wilde

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Rain Quotes

Posted on March 28, 2010 by

– “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

– “A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” – Frederick The Great

– “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey

– “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” – Ray Evans

– “And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.” – Ferdowsi

– “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

– “Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.” – Dwight Morrow

– “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.” – Joshua Slocum

– “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

– “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank Howard Clark

– “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday

– “Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.” – John McGahern

– “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” – John Cheever

– “For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” – Thomas More

– “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” – Douglas William Jerrold

– “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” – Michael W. Smith

– “Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.” – Herbert Simon

– “I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.” – Eden Ahbez

– “I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.” – Glenn Beck