Oscar Wilde - either that wallpaper goes or I do
Oscar Wilde - either that wallpaper goes or I do
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Moments later he is cut down by a Confederate sharpshooter.
Captain Lawrence Oates, on an expedition to the South Pole, before walking into a blizzard:
"I’m just going out. I may be some time"
Voltaire said, "This is no time to make new enemies"
upon being asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
Keats tombstone says: Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
"I told you I was sick!"
Socrates : "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"
Here lies Lester Moore, 4 shots from a 44, No less, no more..
"Make mine an epitaPh"
famous last words?? how about "hey watch this"
Turn me. I am roasted on one side. - St. Lawrence
Hey, Jimmy! Watch this!
Last words, huh..."Yippee kai-ay, mother******!!"
I have this on pretty good authority (so only tenth- or twelfth-hand): ~1985, Pete McArdle (former US OG marathoner, etc.) is running at Van Cortlandt with a couple other guys. They finish the run and one asks McArdle (then ~55 years old), "Geez, Pete, do you always finish so hard?"
McArdle replies, "Ah, I run how I feel."
Boom. Dead before he hits the ground.
"what the f*** was THAT??" ~ the mayor of Hiroshima
"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees" Stonewall Jackson
Don't Try
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country" Nathan Hale
"Oh crap, there is a God"
My dad wrote:
"I told you I was sick!"
Saw this on a tombstone in Key West. Several other funny ones in there.
"Look. I'm hang gliding, I'm hang gliiiiiii, I'm dead."