Famous Last Words

Quotations

1. "Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
   Karl Marx

2. "I desire to go to hell and not to heaven. In the former place, I shall encounter princes while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles."
   Machiavelli

3. "Slaves...I am surrounded by slaves"
   Frederick the Great (II)

4. "Go to Minas Tirith and save my people. I have failed."
   Boromir

5. "Light! More light!"
   
   Goethe

6. "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
   Socrates

7. "Go away. I'm all right."
   H.G. Wells

8. "This is the fourth?"
   Thomas Jefferson

9. "For the love of God, Montresor!"
   Fortunato

10. "I meddled in things that man must leave alone."
    The Invisible Man

11. "...the fog is rising..."
    Emily Dickinson

12. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
    Cody Jarrett

13. "And now, I am dying beyond my means."
    Oscar Wilde

14. "Which is better--to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?"
    Piggy

15. "Timshel!"
    Adam Trask

16. "All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!"
    Henry VIIII

17. "Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah."
    Timothy Leary

18. "Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me."
    Hegel

Books

19. Of course he won't mind/When he finds that he has/A circus behind.
    If I Ran the Circus

20. History will call us wives.
    Dune

21. "How nice of the doctor to save it for us," said the man in the yellow hat. "And NOW we can finish the puzzle."
    Curious George

22. I don't like the design of your new menhirs! Let's keep it Gaulish.
    Asterix and Cleopatra

23. As long as Rome is the Eternal City, these lines shall echo from the lips of men, as long as poetry speaks true on earth, that immortality is mine to wear.
    Ovid's Metamorphoses

24. If some spark does set the keg afire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice--a holocaust that will drag down the innocent and right thinking masses of human beings. Then we will all pay for not having cried justice long ago.
    Black Like Me

25. And I thought about the Angel of the Lord--Gladys, with her skinny legs and her dirty sneakers sticking out from under her robe, yelling at all of us everywhere, "Hey! Unto you a child is born!"
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

26. Miss Bianca, reunited with the Boy and once again domiciled in her Porcelain Pagoda, was happy too. It was really the life that suited her best. But they none of them forgot each other, or their famous adventure in the Black Castle.
    The Rescuers

27. "Anything to eat?" said Charlie. "Oh, you just wait and see!"
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

28. And somehow, Sara felt as though she understood her, though she said so little and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian Gentleman and they got into the carriage and drove away.
    A Little Princess

29. It was the devious cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
    Moby Dick

30. "Me too," quoth Harvey Cheyne.
    Captains Courageous

31. Slouching hopefully toward Tadfield...forever.
    Good Omens

32. Zedd gave the boundary warden a sidelong glance. "Because she knows more about the underworld than anyone alive."
    Wizard's First Rule

33. But the Third Reich had passed into history.
    Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

34. How ironic, Ignatius thought. Taking the pigtail into one of his paws, he pressed it warmly into his wet moustache.
    A Confederacy of Dunces

35. He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar.
    Atlas Shrugged

36. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
    Invisible Man

37. "on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars."
    Blue Mars

38. It was there that we emerged, to see--once more--the stars.
    The Inferno

39. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together, and smiled mysteriously.
    The Grapes of Wrath

40. Hazel followed, and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.
    Watership Down

41. Now everybody--
    Gravity's Rainbow

42. To the everlasting glory of the infantry.
    Starship Troopers

43. A man can stand up.
    Johnny Tremaine

44. Charlotte was both.
    Charlotte's Web

45. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the Great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge. Amen.
    Book of Mormon

46. Oh my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!
    Little Women

47. My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was.
    Tarzan of the Apes

48. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be home again!
    The Wizard of Oz

49. Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
    Pilgrim's Progress

50. "Goodnight, Papa," I said. "We had thirteen sad years." That was all I could say, so I just turned and walked away from a patch of grassless land.
    A Day No Pigs Would Die

51. It was Tao, returning for his old friend, that they might end their journey together.
    The Incredible Journey

52. For you see, in Ireland, there is no future, only the past happening over and over.
    Trinity

53. Strike up, pipers.
    Much Ado About Nothing

54. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.
    Brave New World

55. A crackle of static emerged and then the petty officer's voice--Mooring.
    Hunt for Red October

56. It was a small white chicken feather.
    Dragons of Autumn Twilight

57. Only so will we receive, only so find, and only so will the door be opened to us. Amen.
    Confessions of Saint Augustine

58. He passed on unsuspecting and deadly, like a pest in a street full of men.
    Secret Agent

59. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.
    Catch-22

60. "Well, I would like to make another trip," he said, jumping to his feet, "but I really don't know when I'll have time. There's just so much to do right here."
    The Phantom Tollbooth

61. Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which each chapter is better than the one before.
    The Last Battle

62. But that is not fate's way: Lotus died in childbirth within a year of her marriage.
    Dream of the Red Chamber

63. "The field's cut!" Helen cried excitedly--"the big meadow! We've seen to the very end, and it'll be such a crop of hay as never!"
    Howard's End

64. "My place," Zeeny offered. "Let's get the hell out of here." "I'm coming," he answered her, and turned away from the view.
    The Satanic Verses

Epitaphs

65. Satchmo
    Louis Armstrong

66. Oh All Ye Fowls of/The Air, Bless Ye the/Lord; Praise Him and Magnify/ Him Forever
    Audubon

67. America's Favorite Cowboy
    Gene Autry

68. Justice of the Peace, Law West of the Pecos
    Judge Roy Bean

69. He thinketh no evil
    Henry Ward Beecher

70. The Boy Bandit King/He died as he had lived
    Billy The Kid

71. "That's All Folks"
    Mel Blanc

72. And the beat goes on
    Sonny Bono

73. Statesman, Yet Friend to Truth: of Soul Sincere, in Action, Faithful, and in Honor, Clean
    William Jennings Bryan

74. The Entertainer--He did it all
    Sammy Davis Jr.

75. A Gentle Man and a Gentleman
    Jack Dempsey

76. Steel true, blade straight/ *******, Patriot, physician, and a man of letters.
    Arthur Conan Doyle

77. So we beat on, boats against this current, born back ceaselessly into the past
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

78. The Iron Brigade rears this block of granite to a beloved commander
    John Gibbon

79. In the great cause of good government
    James Forrestal

80. I had a lover's quarrel with the world
    Robert Frost

81. Call Me Trimtab
    Buckminster Fuller

82. The mightiest ballad singer of this or any other century. He lies on through his art.
    Burl Ives

83. Novelist--Citizen of Two Countries--Interpreter of his generation on both sides of the sea
    Henry James

84. He died in Bed
    Doc Holliday

85. Hear Underneath this laitl Stean/ Laz *****/ Ne'er arcir ver as hie sa geud/ And pipul kaul im ******/Sich utlawz az he an iz men/Vil England nivr si agen
    Robin Hood

86. Gave his left arm at Churubusco, Mexico August 18, 1847 and his life at Chantilly, VA 1862
    Phil Kearny

87. Here lies one whose name was writ in water
    Keats

88. Then conquer we must when our cause it it just and this be our motto: "In God We Trust"
    Francis Scott Key

89. Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

90. In another time and place, he would have been called prophet
    Sam Kinison

91. Founder of Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee

92. Everybody loves somebody sometime
    Dean Martin

93. The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker
    Richard Nixon

94. Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus must be planted
    Sylvia Plath

95. The Artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
    Paul Robeson

96. A dynamic innovative leader who captured America's imagination. He was a builder of champions, in football and in life. 105 wins, 12 losses, 5 ties.
    Knute Rockne

97. Freed from slavery by his friend Taylor Blow
    Dred Scott

98. The Best Is Yet To Come
    Frank Sinatra

99. The Master Has Won
    Muddy Waters

100. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself into our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
     John Wayne

101. Cast a Cold Eye/On Life On Death/Horseman Pass By
     W. B. Yeats

Television

102. What were the last words spoken in Cheers?
     We're Closed

103. What are the last words spoken in the Krusty Gets Cancelled Simpsons episode?
     To Krusty, the greatest entertainer in the world...except maybe that guy.

104. The last words in this series were "And somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do." Name it.
     Dr. Who

105. What were the last words Henry Blake said to Radar before he left the 4077th?

106. Production companies are generally the last thing you see in a show. Give the production companies for these shows. (20th Century Fox is not a production company, by the way.)

     1. Space: Above and Beyond
        Hard Eight Productions

     2. Futurama
        The Curiosity Company

     3. The Oprah Winfrey Show
        Harpo Productions

     4. Late Night with David Letterman
        Worldwide Pants

     5. Family Guy
        Fuzzy Door Productions

     6. King of the Hill
        Judgemental Productions

Movies

107. What is the last phrase spoken by Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas?
     You better be good now or I'm gonna come back and kick your butt.

108. Whose last words are these? "No, no, you can't get away! From Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!"
     Khan Noonian Singh

109. And these? "Cut to commercial! Cut to commercial!"
     Fireball (Running Man)

110. What were Captain Kirk's last words?
     It was fun.

111. In the X-Files Movie, someone had the last words "Trust No One." Who?
     Deep Throat

112. "Mein Fuehrer! I can walk!" Name the character and the movie.
     Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove

113. What is the last phrase spoken by Audrey II in the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors?
     Aw, sh*t!

114. "That's right, Matrix, you did." Name the character and the movie.
     Sully in Commando

115. "I wish I could have seen Montana." Name the character and the movie.
     Valisi Borodin in Hunt for Red October

116. "I hope the Pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope." Name the movie.
     The Shawshank Redemption

117. "Xi was beginning to think he would never find the end of the earth. Then, one day, suddenly, there it was." Name the movie.
     The Gods Must Be Crazy

118. "But you don't understand! I'm a man!" "Well, nobody's perfect." Name the movie.
     Some Like It Hot

Miscellaneous

119. Briefly describe the endings of the following games:

     1. Final Fantasy 3 (US)

     2. Might and Magic VI

     3. Street Fighter (when playing Fei Long)

120. "What's that you say? You say today is Saturday? Goodbye, I'm going out to play!"
     Sick, Shel Silverstein

121. "Til human voices wake us, and we drown."
     Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot

122. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
     Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson

123. Essay: What are the classiest/funniest last words you can think of?