Famous Last Words

[Frankennietzsche]

I have been looking up Famous last words today out of some morbid curiosity and boredome. I have found some good ones, some not as drunkardly but good nonethieless.

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .

~ Dylan Thomas

I think that we here are all familiar with that one.

"God damn the whole fuckin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta."

~WC Fields (Carlotta was his mistress.)

" Doest thou think that I am afraid of it? This is that that will cure all sorrows. What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!"

~Sir Walter Raleigh (to his executioner before he was to be beheaded.)

This little episode is great:

At one point during the defense of Rorke's Drift, Zulus swarmed into the front rooms of the outpost hospital. Several men, including Private Harry Hook, fought them off heroically while patients were dragged to safety. Just following the battle, when a cask of rum was produced, Hook--a life-long teetotaler, passed a cup to the Sergeant who was pouring rounds and said, "I feel I want something after that."

[Uncle Gary]

Codeine . . . bourbon.
~~ Tallulah Bankhead, d. 1968

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
~~ Humphrey Bogart, d. 1957

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, d. 1904

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
~~ John Maynard Keynes, Economist, d. 1946

(an old Econ joke: In the long run.... we're all dead. {Keynes, like almost all macroeconomists, was big on the long run.} That's about as funny as Econ gets...)

Drink to me.
~~ Picasso, Pablo, 1973

But my favorite is Voltaire (d.1778). When asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan, he supposedly said, "This is no time to make new enemies."

[hobart]

Either those curtains go or I do. -Oscar Wilde

[peetie44]

The "last words" quote most often attributed to John Barrymore was directed to a friend of his (whose name escapes me): "Aren't you the illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?"

But his actual last words were to a homely cleaning woman in his chambers, who was tidying up near his death bed: "You're not much, but hop in anyway!"

[Gaston]

My favorite so far was from my granddaddy before he passed away...

"well...shit...guess I ain't gonna finish that beer."

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

"I'm going upstairs to do some homework." - Chuck Cunningham

[Rainbird]

"Why not?"

Ginsberg

[gnarkill]

I like this one. It's the actor george sanders' suicide note:

"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. Good Luck."

[Dgirl]

Last tattoo, anyway...

"Fuck all y'all"


Brad Renfro

[MichMorgan]

"Who the h*** wants to hear actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

[lisalinley]

yes there are some famous last words while drinking.i want more.

[Oggar]

Thank God I have done my duty…Drink drink, fan fan, rub rub. -Horatio Nelson

[jackslatess]

Favorite quote is

"DRINK! DRINK! and when you get tired DRINK!!!

[yetiMonster]

"Hey guys! Watch this!"

[libsonluv]

I agree to the sayings mentioned here and it is usual norm that drunkard people expose sometime, a very unpredictable reality which is taken as great fame in the world.