Now I have read so many famous last words, what are my 'famous last words'. Some last words were caused by the circumstances of the event. (Cautionary tale: 'Put out that cigarette,' said before the light attracted a sniper who shot the speaker.)
Many last words were the motto of the speaker, said to everybody they met, so that several people would say, 'his/her last words to me were ...'.
My first draft of my 'famous last words'. Thank you for visiting. Whether or not I know you, I am thinking of what will make you happy. 'How wonderful', Anne Frank said, she said how wonderful it was that we could start today to change the world. I echo her words, 'how wonderful', that books and the media have enabled us all to connect with people in other places and other times, and benefit from the lives, their great minds, good hearts and goodwill.
My last words. Thanks you for visiting my books and my mind. Thank you for mentally shaking hands. Imgaine I am smiling at you and waving goodbye. Whether or not I know you, I am thinking of what will make you happy. How wonderful that books and the media have enabled us all to connect with people in other places and other times and benefit from the lives, their great minds, good hearts and goodwill. I wish you happy journeys through the pages of books and the internet and life. I wish you well.
Should one record the last words of both saints and sinners? Some say we should record the words of sinners as a cautionary tale.
Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly, an Irishman (who was opposed by another Irish man called Kelly), was hanged and his last words were supposedly the nonchalant, 'Such is life.' (Other claim that a newspaper reporter recorded these words and made them up.)
I like Spike Milligan's tombstone: I told you I was ill. The church would not allow this on the gravestone. So it was engraved in a foreign language, which fooled them.
Angela Lansbury
Book
Last Words Of Notable People compiled by William B. Brahms
Last Words of Saints & Sinners by Herbert Lockyer.
Immortal Last Words by Tony Breverton. Historical, starting with the Pharaohs and moving on through Jesus and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great.
Amazon has several more, some of which have Look Inside.
Many last words were the motto of the speaker, said to everybody they met, so that several people would say, 'his/her last words to me were ...'.
My first draft of my 'famous last words'. Thank you for visiting. Whether or not I know you, I am thinking of what will make you happy. 'How wonderful', Anne Frank said, she said how wonderful it was that we could start today to change the world. I echo her words, 'how wonderful', that books and the media have enabled us all to connect with people in other places and other times, and benefit from the lives, their great minds, good hearts and goodwill.
My last words. Thanks you for visiting my books and my mind. Thank you for mentally shaking hands. Imgaine I am smiling at you and waving goodbye. Whether or not I know you, I am thinking of what will make you happy. How wonderful that books and the media have enabled us all to connect with people in other places and other times and benefit from the lives, their great minds, good hearts and goodwill. I wish you happy journeys through the pages of books and the internet and life. I wish you well.
Should one record the last words of both saints and sinners? Some say we should record the words of sinners as a cautionary tale.
Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly, an Irishman (who was opposed by another Irish man called Kelly), was hanged and his last words were supposedly the nonchalant, 'Such is life.' (Other claim that a newspaper reporter recorded these words and made them up.)
I like Spike Milligan's tombstone: I told you I was ill. The church would not allow this on the gravestone. So it was engraved in a foreign language, which fooled them.
Angela Lansbury
Book
Last Words Of Notable People compiled by William B. Brahms
Last Words of Saints & Sinners by Herbert Lockyer.
Immortal Last Words by Tony Breverton. Historical, starting with the Pharaohs and moving on through Jesus and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great.
Amazon has several more, some of which have Look Inside.
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