"What's this?" -- Leonard Bernstein (1990)
"So here it is at last, the distinguished thing." -- Henry James (1916)"Boy, I hope I never have another night like that again." -- Humphrey Bogart (1957)
"Never felt better." -- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1939)"To paradise, vite, vite, au grand galop." -- Madame Louise, Mistress to Louis XV
"I must go in, the fog is rising." -- Emily Dickinson (1886)"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub." -- Conrad Hilton, when asked on his deathbed if he had any last words of wisdom for the world (1979)
"It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone." -- Oliver Cromwell
"Strike the tent." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee (1870)
"Let us cross over the river and rest ourselves in the shadows of the trees." -- The pride of the Confederacy, Stonewall Jackson, shot by one of his own troops while riding at night after the battle of Chancellorsville, May 1863."Moose. Indian." -- Henry David Thoreau
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." -- Union Major Gen. John B. Sedgwick, shot in the head by a Confederate sniper at the battle of Spottsylvania, 1864, while standing on a rampart directing artillery fire.
"Put that bloody cigarette out." -- H.H. Munro, author also known as 'Saki,' to a comrade in a shell crater just before a sniper took his life in World War I, November 13, 1916"Are you sure it's safe?" -- William Palmer, about to be executed in 1856 for poisoning a friend, as he stepped on the gallow's trapdoor.
"Death itself isn't dreadful, but hanging seems an awkward way to end the adventure." -- Gerald Chapman, executed in 1926 for killing a policeman.
"Such is life." -- Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol in 1880."Watch this." -- Jack Powell, who pitched two games for the Cardinals in 1913, choking to death after boasting he could swallow a steak whole.
"We are all going." -- President William McKinley, in reply to his weeping wife when she said, "I want to go too." McKinley was on his death bed after being shot at the Pan American Exposition of 1901, in Buffalo, New York.
"It was a great game." -- Bing Crosby, after finishing a round of golf at La Moraleja course near Madrid, dying of a heart attack on his way to the Club House, 1977.
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