Famous Last Words

"Thank God I have done my duty."
-Horatio Nelson

"To the strongest!"
-Alexander

"Even you, Brutus, my son?"
-Julius Caesar

"Boy, fetch me my fiddle."
- Rob Roy MacGregor

Executioner: Do you have any last words?

Alfred Rosenberg: "No."

Originally posted by Omar al Hashim "I wonder what happens if I do this?"

Hmmm..wonder if these were the actual last words of any major historical figure...

Some other Famous Last Words:

Jesus Christ (Before Death on Cross) - "It is finished" (Gospel of John, Ch19vs30), "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" (Gospels of Matthew - Ch27vs45 - and Mark - Ch15vs34-35), and finally, In the Gospel of Luke Ch23vs36 it says his final words on the cross were "Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit"

Ludwig Van Beethoven - "Friends applaud, the comedy is over"

Genghis Khan - " Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, let the enemy be warned of my death"

Joan of Arc - "Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!"

Jan Zizka - "Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause."

James Wolfe - "What, do they run already?  Then I die happy."

Romeo (Fictional) - "Here's to my love!  O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick.  Thus with a kiss I die"

..heres a few that may or may not be true, but possibly interesting nonetheless!!...

..George V..King of England, died 1936...
"How is the Empire?"

..Archimedes..Greek mathematician, killed 212BC...to invading soldiers...
"Stand, fellow, from my diagram!"

..Sir Walter Ralegh...about to beheaded in 1618..
"'tis a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills"

..Karl Marx...asked if he had a last message to the world..
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"

..Heinrich Himmler..
"I am Heinrich Himmler"

..Socrates..commited suicide in 399BC..
"Crito, i owe a cock to Aslepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"

Originally posted by Emperor Barbarossa Jan Zizka - "Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause." Wow, I never could find Zizka's last words. One of the best I have heard so far.

That is the false legend that Pius Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini spread. In fact, it is recorded by the Hussite chroniclers that "making his last will be known he instructed his beloved and faithful brothers and Czechs, Lord Viktorin, Lord Jan Bzdinka Hvezda and Kunes of Belovice that they ought to continue on fighting in love of God and that they should faithfully and without wavering defend God's truths in order to obtain everlasting reward. Then Brother Zizka commended his soul to God and there he died on the Wednesday before St. Gall" (October 11, 1424).

FDR - "I have a horrible headache..."

Theodore Roosevelt - "Please put out the light, James."



Edited by Donasin - 02-Jan-2007 at 01:19

Augustus' was "Finita la comedia", I believe.

"Palestine is Arab"

Haha Constantine, beat me to it...

On a side note, some other famous last words:

Hannibal - "Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent" - "Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man"

Che Guevara - "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"

Caligula - "Vivo!" - "I live!"

Lord Horatio Nelson - "Thank God I have done my duty!"

- Knights -

Originally posted by Patrinos Originally posted by Act of Oblivion ..Archimedes..Greek mathematician, killed 212BC...to invading soldiers... "Stand, fellow, from my diagram!" Actually Archimedes said: "Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε"(mi mou tous kiklous taratte) and means "Don't disturb my circles" when he experimented something in water. But I've read your version Act of Oblivion τοο,I don't know which is true.

Edited by Yiannis - 02-Jan-2007 at 05:58