Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Famous Last Words

Aggrippina. Nero's mother AD 59 "Smite my womb"
Pope Alexander VI, Borgia 1142 "I don't know"
Martin Luther 1546 "Yes"
King Henry VII 1547 "Monks, Monks, Monks"
King Charles I 1649 "Remember"
Thomas Hobbes 1679 "A great leap in the dark"
Julie de Lespinasse 1776 "Am I still alive?"
Voltaire 1778 "For God's sake, let me die in peace"
Emperor Joseph II 1790 "Here lies Joseph who was unsuccesful in all his undertakings"
W.A. Mozart 1791 "I was writing this for myself"
Immanuel Kant 1804 "Enough"
Napolean Bonaparte 1821 "Josephine"
Ludwig van Beethoven 1827 "The Comedy is over"
Georg Wilhelm Hegel 1831 "And he didn't understand me"
J.W. von Goethe 1832 "More Light!"
Nathan Rotschild 1836 "And all because of my money"
J.M.W. Turner 1851 "The sun is God"
Heinrich Heine 1856 "God will pardon me. It’s his profession"
Charles Darwin 1882 "I am not in the least afraid to die"
Karl Marx (when asked for a last word) 1883 "Go on, get out"
Emperor Franz-Joseph 1916 (singing) "God Save the Emperor!"
George Clemenceau 1929 "I wish to be buried upright facing Germany"
Heinrich Himler 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler"
H.G. Wells 1946 "I'm alright"

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