"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
"My work is done. Why wait?"
US inventor and industrialist Suicide note
"On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
epitaph
"She sleeps alone at last."
Suggested epitaph for an actress
"Thank you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop."
said to the nun nursing him on his deathbed
"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that."
Captain of the Titanic
"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry"
"Go away...I'm alright."
dying words
"Excuse my dust"
Epitaph
"I don't feel good."
"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used."
French grammarian, dying words
Quotedb: The Quotations Database
