Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
?Ludwig van Beethoven
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy
of always bringing you the latest in blood
and guts, in living color, you're about to see
another first -- an attempted suicide.
?Chris Hubbock, who shot
herself during a broadcast
What we know is not much.
What we don't know is enormous.
?Pierre Simon de Laplace
Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!
?Andrew Bradford
I wonder why he shot me?
?Huey P. Long, governor in
Louisiana, was murdered.
Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.
?Wilhelm II, King of England,
to his hunting-partner
who missed the deer.
"Why not, why not, why not."
"Why not?" and "Yeah."
?Timothy Leary
Let me think... I wonder if an
anvil will drop like an apple?
?Sir Isaac Newton
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
?George Saunders
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius;
will you remember to pay the debt?
?Socrates
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
?James Rodges, murderer, on his final
request before the firing squad
Go away... I'm alright.
?H. G. Wells
...the fog is rising.
?Emily Dickinson
Drink to me.
?Pablo Picasso
I am about to -- or I am going to --
die; either expression is used.
?Last words of Dominique Bouhours,
French grammarian
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
?Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne
on his deathbed
God will pardon me. It is his trade.
?Heinrich Heine
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
?General Sedgewick, killed in battle 1864,
imprudently looking over the
parapet at the enemy lines
Don't worry! It's not loaded.
?Terry Kath, rockmusician,
played russian roulette
Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!
?General Mad Anthony Wayne
When told by his doctors the
angels were waiting for him.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
?Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward,
you are only going to kill a man.
?Che Guevara, facing his assassin
All my possessions for a moment of time
?Elizabeth I
Go on, get out. Last words are for
fools who haven't said enough.
?Karl Marx
18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.
?Dylan Thomas
He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.
?Epitaph
Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said
"Gimme hockey, or gimme death."
He didn't quite get hockey.
?Epitaph
