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Karl Marx's Famous Last Words
Get out of here and leave me alone. Last words are for fools who haven't
said enough already.
— Karl Marx
Jerry Kosinski's Famous Last Words
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity. (quoted in Newsweek, May 13, 1991).
— Jerzy Kosinski, American Author
W. Somerset Maugham's Famous Last Words
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Teresa of Avila's Famous Last Words
The hour I have long wished for is now come.
— Teresa of Avila
Oscar Wilde's Famous Last Words
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
— Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900) Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist
Attributed last words, as he lay dying in a drab Paris hotel room.
George Appel's Not-So-Famous Last Words
You're about to see a baked apple.
— George Appel, who was executed in an electric chair
David Stoker's Not-So-Famous Last Words
Let's rock and roll.
— David Stoker, who was executed for the murder of a convenience store
clerk
Lenny Bruce's Famous Last Words
I'll be comfortable on the couch.
— Lenny Bruce (quoted in The Essential Lenny Bruce, J. Cohen)
George Eastman's Famous Last Words
My work is done, why wait?
— George Eastman, founder of Kodak (in suicide note)
Elizabeth I's Famous Last Words
All my possessions for a moment of time.
— Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) English ruler
Alleged last words.
Lope de Vega 's Famous Last Words
All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
— Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (upon being reassured on his deathbed
that his end was near)
Luthar Burbank's Famous Last Words
I don't feel good.
— Luther Burbank, American horticulturist (who developed countless
new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, including the Burbank
potato)
Pancho Villa's Famous Last Words
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
— Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary leader
William Hazlitt's Famous Last Words
Well, I've had a happy life.
— William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) English writer, essayist
Last words, quoted in W. C. Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt
Gertrude Stein's Famous Last Words
What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?
— Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) US author
Logan Pearsall Smith's Famous Last Words
Thank heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
— Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946) US-English essayist, editor,
anthologist
Stonewall Jackson's Famous Last Words
Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade.
— Stonewall Jackson (1824 - 1863) US confederate army general (His famous
last words before being shot mistakenly by his own men 10 May 1863.)
John Quincy Adam's Famous Last Words
This is the last of Earth! I am content.
— John Quincy Adams
Voltaire's Famous Last Words
This is no time for making new enemies.
— Voltaire (1694-1778 - on being asked on his deathbed to renounce
the Devil)
Lytton Strachey's Famous Last Words
If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.
— Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
John Sedgwick's Famous Last Words
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
— John Sedgwick (immediately prior to being killed by enemy fire at
the battle of Spotsylvania in the American Civil War, May 1864)
Emily Dickinson's Famous Last Words
Let us go in; the fog is rising.
— Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) US poet
Attributed last words; in "A Certain World," " Words, Last," by W.
H. Auden, 1970
W.C. Field's Famous Last Words
I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.
— W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946) US actor, comedian
H. L. Mencken's Famous Last Words
If after I depart this vale, you ever remember me, and have thought
to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
— H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) US editor, satirist
William Blake's Famous Last Words
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.
— William Blake
Winston Churhill's Famous Last Words
I am bored with it all.
— Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) English statesman, author
Heinrich Heine's Famous Last Words
God will forgive me, it is his trade.
— Heinrich Heine
Francois Rabelais's Famous Last Words
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is
played.
— Francois Rabelais (1494 - 1553) French author
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#1 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retire from work, but not from life.
— M. K. Soni
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The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
— Susan Miller
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The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before your boss does.
— Unknown wise person
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I never stopped doing anything [when I retired], I stopped getting paid for it.
— Bill Chavanne
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Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
— Abe Lemons
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In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.
— Unknown wise person
#8 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
My retirement plan is to find a shopping cart with good snow tires.
— Patty Doyle
#9 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
— Workplace graffiti
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— Abe Lemons
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The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.
— Charles T. Manatt
#2 Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
— Jonathan Clements
#3 Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
— George F. Burns
#4 Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
— Gene Perret
#5 Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working.
— Unknown wise person
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— Unknown wise person
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