Thank you Lewis Carroll, for teaching me the difference between meaning what I say, and saying what I mean.

Favorite Famous Last Words



All my possessions for a moment of time.
~Queen Elizabeth I,  Died ~1603



It's all been very interesting.
~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (writer), Died ~ 1762



Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~Oscar Wilde (writer), Died November 30, 1900



I'm bored with it all.
(Said before slipping into a coma, in which he died 9 days later.)
~Winston Churchill (statesman) Died. January 24, 1965



All this buttoning and unbuttoning.
~Anonymous 18th-century suicide note,  from  The Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations.



Now comes the mystery.
~Henry Ward Beecher, Died 1887



Now is not the time for making new enemies.
(Purported to be said to a priest on his deathbed when asked to renounce Satan).
~Voltaire, Died 1778.



That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
~Lou Costello, Died 1959



I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
~John Maynard Keynes, Died 1946




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