The First Annual Last Words Contest
"I wish I had drunk more champagne."
With these last words, John Maynard Keynes, the famous British economist, passed into the Great Beyond. Way to go Johnny!
Conrad Hilton, grandfather of Paris and founder of one of the world's most acclaimed hotel empires, left us with a slightly different message. "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub."
Thank you, Conrad. I will do my best to remember that.
What about you? What do you imagine your last words will be? Or better yet, what would you like them to be? Oh sure, you may have another 80 years to go, but it's never too soon to get your legacy in gear.
If you need some inspiration to get you going, click below to see what Mata Hari, P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde and a host of others had to say just before they left their mortal coil...
"I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper. One of us has to go." - Oscar Wilde
"Why not? After all, it belongs to Him." - Charlie Chaplin
"How were the circus receipts in Madison Square Garden?" - P.T. Barnum
"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion." - Mata Hari
"I've had a hellava lot of fun and have enjoyed every minute of it." - Erroll Flynn
"That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted." - Lou Costello
"Die, I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." - John Barrymore
"Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me." - Rudolf Valentino
"More light!" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"That was a great game of golf, fellers." - Bing Crosby
"God, don't let me die. I have so much to do." - Huey Long
"I shall hear in heaven!" - Ludwig Van Beethoven
"I have just had 18 whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record." - Dylan Thomas
"Go on. Get out! Last words are for fools that haven't said enough!" - Karl Marx
"Wait a second." - Madame de Pompadour
"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa
OK. Your turn...
Excepted from Famous Last Words by Ray Robinson (Workman Publishing, 2003)
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at July 14, 2008 05:03 AM
Comments
What a Life! What a Life! and Thank You. That would be my "famous" last words
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at July 14, 2008 01:44 PM
I had a blast, thanks to my Teacher, Prem Rawat, aka, Maharaji!
Posted by: j bhutu-ji at July 15, 2008 10:35 AM
Famous Last words: "That was dumb"
Posted by: cbee at July 26, 2008 04:03 PM
"I love you"
Posted by: Mary Anne Erickson at February 4, 2009 08:55 AM
Thank you! I love you...
Posted by: tb at February 4, 2009 07:26 PM
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