Posted on 10/13/2015 7:42:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
People have always been fascinated by the last words of others.
Perhaps they hold a touch of wisdom, or a final joke, or even confirmation of who's getting what in the will.
In light of that, Business Insider put together a list of the reported last words of 18 famous historical figures.
Check them out below.
1. Karl Marx, philosopher.
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
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2. Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winner.
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
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3. Archimedes, mathematician.
"Stand away, fellow, from my diagram!"
Archimedes was killed during the Second Punic War. According to the historian Plutarch, a soldier reportedly came up to the mathematician and told him to go with him to Marcellus. Archimedes, however, refused to do so until he finished the problem he was working on. Enraged, the soldier killed him.
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4. Napoléon Bonaparte, French military and political leader.
"France, the army, the head of the army, Joséphine."
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5. Humphrey Bogart, actor.
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Most common last words: “Here, hold my beer and watch this.”
“I drank what?”
-Socrates
Then there was the civil war Union general who kept riding up and down his lines, encouraging his troops. his last words? “c’mon, boys, there’s nothing to worry about! They can’t hit anything from this dist...”
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When my Dad was dying, we were sitting with him.
He was doing OK and the end did not appear close. He force my Mom to go with my wife and me to go grab a quick sandwich in the cafeteria, down one flight.
As we were leaving the floor, he yelled out the door, “I love you.”
He was dead before the elevator doors opened.
The floor nurses told us it was one of the sweetest things they had ever seen.
“The bomb vest works like th__”
“Damned parachute.”
“What’s this thing do?”
That brought tears to my eyes...
Bosco....
LMAO.
Most common statement uttered in the US” “Would you like fries with that”?
On 5 Aug. 1984, my stepdad was sitting on the couch watching the news; my mother returned from the next-door neighbor’s house and started making dinner in the kitchen. Dad called out to Mom from the adjacent living room and told her, “Richard Burton died.”
Those were his last words. Dad was dead minutes later. A massive coronary took him.
"For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee..."
“I told you I was sick”.
Thanks for sharing your story... sounds like your Dad knew the end was at hand.
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
News flash, Karl. At some point in time, you will have 'last words'. Me thinks you spoke too much...
He was feeling like crap that morning, and Mom wanted to take him down to Kaiser Hospital in the Bay Area right away, but he didn't want to go; he did agree to let her take him the next morning if he didn't feel better. Unfortunately, the coronary interceded.
John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War, killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and is well-remembered for his ironic last words: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan.
Where did all these freakin’ Indians come from?
- Gen. Custer.
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