Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol VIII (Jan thru Oct 2014)

A few famous (& a few not-so-famous) LAST WORDS ...
"No comment." ~ Edward Abbey
"No ... I have no final statement." ~ Lawrence Brewer
"I've said all that I've had to say." ~ Bill Hicks
"Last words are for fools who haven't already said enough." ~ Karl Marx
"What time is it? Never mind ... That's not important." ~ Janos Arany
"Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose." ~ Marie Antionette (said to her
executioner, after she inadvertently stepped on his foot while approaching the guillotine)
"Now I can cross the shifting sands." ~ L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of Oz)
"Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only course
that holds out any promise of peace … Political passions, once they have been fanned
into flame, always exact their victims." ~ Albert Einstein
"All my possessions for a moment of time." ~ Queen Elizabeth I
"Either the wallpaper goes or I do." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Father, Father ... Why have you forsaken me?" ~ Jesus Christ (quoting the first verse
of the surprisingly uplifting 22nd Psalm in Mark 15:34; essentially saying "It's been an honor to
serve you fully & completely, Dad.")
"Die, my dear? Why, that's the very last thing I'll do!" ~ Grouch Marx
"Waiting are they? Well ... Let them wait." ~ Ethan Allen (responding to an attending
doctor, who had just offered the gentle words: "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.")
"Take a step forward, lads. It'll be easier that way." ~ Robert Childers (said to his
firing squad, during the Irish Civil War)
"I am about to die -- or I am going to die; either expression is correct." ~ Dominique
Bouhours (a French grammarian)
"It is good." ~ Immanuel Kant (ironically, his ultimate "moral imperative")
"God bless ... God damn."~ James Thurber
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies." ~ Voltaire (when asked
by a priest to renounce Satan)
"Wait a minute." ~ Pope Alexander VI
"I did not know that we had ever quarreled." ~ Henry David Thoreau (after his aunt
had asked him if he had made his peace with God)
"I feel great." ~ Pete Maravich (said seconds before his death during a pickup game)
"It's all been rather lovely." ~ John Le Mesurier,
"I am about to take my last voyage; a great leap in the dark." ~ Thomas Hobbes
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