last_words What Would Yours Be? This is the last of earth! I am content. ~~ John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848 Codeine . . . bourbon. ~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968 Friends applaud, the comedy is finished. ~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827 I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. ~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957 I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct. ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702 The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. (Dying of tuberculosis.) ~~ Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849 That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. ~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959 I am not the least afraid to die. ~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882 I must go in, the fog is rising. ~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886 I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. ~~ Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679 I see black light. ~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885 Is it the Fourth? ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826 Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal? ~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715 I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms. ~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820 I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. ~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953 Get my swan costume ready. ~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931 I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . . ~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953 Go away. I'm all right. ~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946 Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900 I am ready. ~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924 101210 ... WWYB What should yours be? 101210 what's it to you? who go blather from