History is littered with famous last words. Here are a few:
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
Oscar Wilde, writer, November 30, 1900
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!
Karl Marx, revolutionary socialist, March 14, 1883
Damn it . . . Don’t you dare ask God to help me.
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart, actor, January 14, 1957
Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well–let ’em wait.
In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, ‘General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.’
Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, 1789