December 20, 2004

More last words

From the Yankee almanac

Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well - let them 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.

Moose...Indian .........
    Henry David Thoreau, American writer

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
    (To his housekeeper who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity) Karl Marx, German political philosopher

How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden
    P.T. Barnum, American entrepreneur

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark
    O. Henry, American writer

Get my swan costume ready
    Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina

I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis.
    Humphrey Bogart, American actor

Is it the Fourth?
    Thomas Jefferson, US President who died July 4, 1826

Thomas Jefferson - still survives
    (Actually Jefferson had died earlier that day) John Adams, 2nd US President who also died July 4, 1826

Posted by Jill Fallon at December 20, 2004 6:04 PM | Permalink