NationStates Jolt Archive

"I just want you to know, I always hated you. I always hated you the most."

-Private Leonard L. Church

Now you go!

'God bless you, Hardy.'
The Right Honourable Horatio, Viscount Nelson.

Today is a good day.....To Teleport!
-Sarge

"Be sure you show the mob my head. It will be a long time ere they see its like" -Danton

Is this literal great last words, i.e. words spoken just before death, or metaphorical last words, i.e.:


Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

???

"Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius." -Socrates

Is this literal great last words, i.e. words spoken just before death, or metaphorical last words, i.e.:



???

I thought literal. Sorry if i'm wrong.

"I do not regret what I have done. Pull the trigger and be damned."- Unidentified martian rebel from Starsiege, prelude to the Tribes games.

"Don't worry boys, they couldn't hit an elephant at this ra..."
British general, last words before he was shot mid sentance.

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." -Nathan Hale

"It is well. I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." -George Washington

"I am just going outside and may be some time."

Captain Oates

"Water!" Ulysses S. Grant

I thought literal. Sorry if i'm wrong.

Ah. In that case, I've always enjoyed Eisenhower's last words.


"I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me"

~Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"When are you guys going to come and fix this gas line?"

Go here. (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/realidx.htm) Some of my thus far favorites.

Antoinette, Marie, Queen of France (1755-1793)
"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur."

Astor, Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879-1964)
"Am I dying or is is this my birthday?"

Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
"Now comes the mystery."

Bouhours, Dominique (1628-1702)
"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used."

"Ow." -anonymous

"Church, the purple guy, he's........No, he's an asshole!"

-Tucker

From a story I'm writing:

"If you gotta go down... GO DOWN IN FLAMES!"

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Classic... Red vs. Blue

Stonewall Jackson's last words:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

"Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." -St. Stephen (first martyr).

"Don't Worry, we'll be fine!" - Anonymous

Classic... Red vs. Blue

Stonewall Jackson's last words:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

That guy LOST IT. Right before that quote, which is all profound and perfect and whatever, he went crazy and started barking out orders to his commanders.

Famous last words for pilots:

Where are we?
Is it supposed to be doing that?
Oh shit!

"I ain't dead yet Mother Fucker!"
-Richard Pryor

"I love my country more than my soul." -Machiavelli

"Had I but served my God with half the zeal that I served my king, He would not have left me in my gray hairs." -Cardinal Wolsey

Best Quote:

"Fuck All Y'all!"

Sounds like one word when yelled.

"Don't worry boys, they couldn't hit an elephant at this ra..."
British general, last words before he was shot mid sentance.
Actually, those were the last words of a Union general during the US Civil War (I forget the name.)

Hey y'all, check this out!
Famous last words throughout Redneck America. :-)

Soon to be famous last words of Michael Jackson
"Eh-he"
"Deaths ingnat."
"Little boys are soft to the tuch,blankey."

Actually, those were the last words of a Union general during the US Civil War (I forget the name.)

Yep. His name was Sedgwick.

Londo: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE LAST ZON SAID, JUST BEFORE HE DIED?

Londo and Vir, Imitating: AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

(Londo, Babylon 5)

Famous last words of Scifi nerds.

"live long and prosper."-actually from a star trek movie.
"I see a bright....GODZILLA!!."
"Take me to your leader."

Famous last word of a football star.

"My only regret is that I fumbled in the third quarter."

Nothing is showing up on infrared at all.
-Pvt Diedrich, Aliens

"Well, one of us had to go." - Oscar Wilde

While some of us are including last words of movie characters:

"I feel ... cold."--Capt. Barbossa of Pirates of the Caribbean

Such an interesting scene.

"Oh Jesus! Yes, I'm sa-" -Jed

"Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius." -Socrates

That was his 'official' last words.

But as anybody who has watched the movie, 'Real Genius' can tell you, his real last words were,

"I drank what?" -Socrates.

"Go away. I'm fine"
HG Wells

"Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius." -Socrates

For the less informed of you people. Aesculapius was the Greek god for healing. He was about the drink Hemlock, a posion used in death sentence in ancient Greece where he was being put to death. Thus the irony.

Theres some debate as to whether Socrates actually said this, since the source of this line was from a less-than-objective source (specifically one of his followers who hero-worshipped Socates)

Famous last words of Scifi nerds.

"live long and prosper."-actually from a star trek movie.
"I see a bright....GODZILLA!!."
"Take me to your leader."
I like Shatner's death scene on that episode of Family Guy.
"Beam me up, God."
I'd also like to include "He's dead, Jim." As far as sci-fi nerds are concerned. I've heard that that's on Deforest Kelly's tombstone, but I've never bothered to verify that information.

For the less informed of you people. Aesculapius was the Greek god for healing. He was about the drink Hemlock, a posion used in death sentence in ancient Greece where he was being put to death. Thus the irony.

Theres some debate as to whether Socrates actually said this, since the source of this line was from a less-than-objective source (specifically one of his followers who hero-worshipped Socates)

Well, yeah.. ;)

"I have seen the top of the Mountain, and you will worship me as though I were a God!"

Smack

"I regret nothing! I lived as few men dare to dream!"

"Watch this."

"It is done!" Jesus just before giving up the ghost.

"Where is he..."- my thoughts playing a game of halo, right before taking a turn and meeting the other player... who had a sniper rifle.

"Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius." -Socrates
:D cool dude to the end... :D

"Where is he..."- my thoughts playing a game of halo, right before taking a turn and meeting the other player... who had a sniper rifle.
Heh...reminds me of my days playing Ghost Recon in a clan...
We'd use teamspeak...and so it was me and 3 other guys, against 4 other guys...one of the guys on my team is Canadian and his computer sucks so he lags a lot...
The reason I mention his Canuckness is because his accent made the situation funny. His nick name was Dack.

Pogo: Hey, Dack, I just saw a man head to B4.
Dack: B4? I'm in...B9, he should be close...
Pogo: Yea dude, keep a look out...
Nate: Dack, I see two guys in B-sector, are you laying down or standing up?
........
Nate: Shit, the guy laying down is turning my way...
Dack: I think I see the guy in B4. He's in B3...
Nate: DACK! Which one are you?!!
Dack: I'm just trying to turn a little and ... ah fuckin' shit... I'm dead now...

"I am surprised. It is very beautiful." - Thomas Alva Edison

"don't let it end like this, tell them I said something"
-Can't remember

Did Edison really say that? Wow, that is a great last sentence.

Heh...reminds me of my days playing Ghost Recon in a clan...
We'd use teamspeak...and so it was me and 3 other guys, against 4 other guys...one of the guys on my team is Canadian and his computer sucks so he lags a lot...
The reason I mention his Canuckness is because his accent made the situation funny. His nick name was Dack.

Pogo: Hey, Dack, I just saw a man head to B4.
Dack: B4? I'm in...B9, he should be close...
Pogo: Yea dude, keep a look out...
Nate: Dack, I see two guys in B-sector, are you laying down or standing up?
........
Nate: Shit, the guy laying down is turning my way...
Dack: I think I see the guy in B4. He's in B3...
Nate: DACK! Which one are you?!!
Dack: I'm just trying to turn a little and ... ah fuckin' shit... I'm dead now...

...I guess I didn't make it clear that Dack was the one that Nate was turning...and Nate was the one who killed Dack...but I shot the other guy immediately afterwards...it was a night map.

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Oscar Wilde, 1900

"Don't worry boys, they couldn't hit an elephant at this ra..."
British general, last words before he was shot mid sentance.


was actually

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
-- Last words of Union commander General John Sedgwick, spoken as he was watching enemy troops at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

but the point is still the same, standing in front of lots of angry people with rifles and saying something quite that stupid is still that funny :D

hmmm next time i might bother to actually read the rest of the thread first.... :headbang:

"Now I am my own lord." - Marcus Portius Cato jr., before his suicide

it was the fish!

was actually

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
-- Last words of Union commander General John Sedgwick, spoken as he was watching enemy troops at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

but the point is still the same, standing in front of lots of angry people with rifles and saying something quite that stupid is still that funny :D

hmmm next time i might bother to actually read the rest of the thread first.... :headbang:

That one is my favourite, as even in death Sedgwick couldn't not give orders and/or be critical. My other favourite is from James Wolfe after being shot at the Battle of The Fields of Abraham:

(learns that the rival general has been killed and the French repelled)
"I die happy"

"Dude, hold my beer and watch this..."

"See you in a couple of hours"

"And remember the truth that once was spoken:
To love another person is to see the face of God"
-Les Mis, the musical, Jean Valjean's deathbed
(He dies a little differently in the book)

The mystic poet Paul Claudel once unsuccessfully attempted to convert the liberal-leaning Andre Gide to his Catholic faith. On February 19, 1951, Gide died. Several days later, a curious telegram, bearing Gide's signature, appeared on a bulletin board in the Sorbonne: "Hell doesn't exist," the notice read. "Better notify Claudel."

Arcadian Mists, you are the first person I have known who appreciates that wonderful play (or has even seen it).

Someone probably already said these:

"Et tu, Brute?"

-Julius Caeser

"Thomas Jefferson still lives."

-John Adams

"Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do." (or, something like that)

-some British PM whose name escapes me at the moment

'God bless you, Hardy.'
The Right Honourable Horatio, Viscount Nelson.
I thought that was supposed to be, "Kismet, Hardy"?

"What does this button do?"