"Wait 'till I have finished my problem!" -- Archimedes of Syracuse (298-212 B.C.)

 

The ladies have to go first. . . . Get in the lifeboat, to please me. . . . Good-bye, dearie. I'll see you later." -- John Jacob Astor, IV (1864-1912)

 

You s.ns of bitches. Give my love to Mother." -- Francis "Two Gun" Crowley (1900-1931

 

"Shakespeare, I come." -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

 

"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here." -- Nostradamus (Michel de Notre Dame) (1503-1566)

 

 

 

 

http://www.ingilizce-ders.com/ingilizce-ders/quotations-ozdeyisler/last-words.htm

"That fellow, at that distance, can't hit an eleplant."

 

General John Sedgwick, at The Wilderness, when warned an enemy sharpshooter was aiming at him.

"Don't let it end like this, tell them I said something."

 

Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary bandit. after he was fatally wounded

tvp45, I've always seen it written as;

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....."

 

"Shoot straight you bastards"

Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant 1902

I love this stuff. Apparently Cecil Rhodes, the great industrial pirate said with regret upon his deathbed the following words:

"So little done, so much to do." Rhodes, Cecil John (1853-1902)

According to an unflattering T.V. series about Rhodes, his actual last words were: " Turn me over, Jack." Hardly memorable...

 

I also love this one although it could hardly be called famous:

"Why yes, a bullet-proof vest!"

(Last request before the firing squad.)

Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) [American criminal]