Today's Trivia - Famous Last Words (Part 2)

This week�s trivia is the second part of a collection of last words spoken by famous people before they died...


�Thomas Jefferson still survives...�
John Adams, US President,
Died July 4, 1826
(Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day.)

�This is the last of earth! I am content.�
John Quincy Adams
US President
Died: February 21, 1848

�Is it not meningitis?�
Louisa M. Alcott
Writer
Died: 1888

�Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.�
In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."
Ethan Allen
American Revolutionary General
Died: 1789

�Nothing, but death.�
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
Jane Austen
Writer
Died: July 18, 1817

�Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.�
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Died: March 26, 1827

�I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.�
Humphrey Bogart
Actor
Died: January 14, 1957

�Josephine... �
Napoleon Bonaparte
French Emperor
Died: May 5, 1821

�Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.�
Johannes Brahms
Composer
Died: April 3, 1897

�Et too, Brute?�
Assassinated.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Roman Emperor
Died: 44 BC

�I am still alive!�
Stabbed to death by his own guards - (as reported by Roman historian Tacitus)
Gaius Caligula
Roman Emperor
Died: 41 AD

�Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve.�
Charles II
King of England and Scotland
Died: 1685

�Ay Jesus.�
Charles V
King of France
Died: 1380

�The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.�
Dying of tuberculosis.
Frederic Chopin
Composer
Died: October 16, 1849

�I'm bored with it all.�
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
Winston Churchill
Statesman
Died: January 24, 1965

�That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.�
Lou Costello
Comedian
Died: March 3, 1959

�Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.�
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
Joan Crawford
Actress
Died: May 10, 1977

�That was a great game of golf, fellers.�
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby
Singer / Actor
Died: October 14, 1977

�I am not the least afraid to die.�
Charles Darwin
Died: April 19, 1882

�My God. What's happened?"
Diana (Spencer)
Princess of Wales
Died: August 31, 1997

�I must go in, the fog is rising.�
Emily Dickinson
Poet
Died: 1886

�It is very beautiful over there.�
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor
Died: October 18, 1931

�No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.�
Edward VII
King of Britain
Died: 1910

�All my possessions for a moment of time.�
Elizabeth I
Queen of England
Died: 1603

�I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.�
Errol Flynn
Actor
Died: October 14, 1959

�A dying man can do nothing easy.�
Benjamin Franklin
Statesman
Died: April 17, 1790

�Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark.�
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
Writer
Died: June 4, 1910

�All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! �
Henry VIII
King of England
Died: 1547

�I see black light.�
Victor Hugo
Writer
Died: May 22, 1885

�Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.�
Andrew Jackson
US President
Died: 1845

�Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.�
Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Died: 1863

�Is it the Fourth?�
Thomas Jefferson
US President
Died: July 4, 1826