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The Famous Last Words of Famous People

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This, is the last of earth. I am content. – Adams John Quincy

For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. – Bacon Sir Francis

Let’s roll. – Todd Beamer

Don’t die like I did. – George Best

Work hard to gain your own salvation. – Buddha

Hallo, the bow is up… I’m going… I’m on my back… I’ve gone. Oh. – Donald Campbell

Let not poor Nelly starve. – King Charles II

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. – Erskine Childers

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. – Kurt Cobain

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone. – Oliver Cromwell

I do not believe in my death. – Salvador Dali

My God. What’s happened? – Diana, Princess of Wales

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.) – Isadora Duncan

Bugger Bognor! – King George V

Mehr Licht! (More light!) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize. – Joe Hill

On the contrary. – Henrik Ibsen

Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. – Hugh Latimer

Strike the tent. – Robert E. Lee

I’m shot. – John Lennon

I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan

This hath not offended the king. – Thomas More

Thank God, I have done my duty. – Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates

What do I tell the pilot to do? – Barbara Olson

Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do! – Lord Henry Temple Palmerston

I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to. – Luciano Pavarotti

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies. – William Pitt

Let me go to the house of the Father. – Pope John Paul II

I hope I haven’t bored you. – Elvis Presley

I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell. – Walter Ralegh

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. – Ken Saro-Wiwa

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – General John Sedgwick

“What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” – Gertrude Stein

If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it. – Lytton Strachey

Relax – This won’t hurt. – Hunter S. Thompson

One of us must go. – Oscar Wilde

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Trust Quotes About Love

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* A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ~ Charles Kingsley
* The best proof of love is trust. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
* Trust lies at the core of love; there can be no true love without trust. ~ M.K. Soni
* Trust is always earned, never given. ~ R. Wiliams
* We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ~ Walter Anderson
* It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. ~ Anonymous
* A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. ~ Nanette Newman
* Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care. ~ Carl S. Avery
* When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. ~ Real Live Preacher
* There are people I know who won’t hurt me. I call them corpses. ~ Randy K. Milholland
* A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

Broken Trust Quotes

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* Love all, trust a few. ~ William Shakespeare
* I don’t really trust a sane person. ~ Lyle Alzado
* People ask me why it’s so hard to trust people, and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.~ Unknown
* Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. ~ Agatha Christie
* Trust everybody, but cut the cards. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
* Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~ Helen Rowland
* Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
* Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. ~ Aesop
* I don’t trust him. We’re friends. ~ Bertolt Brecht
* I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them. ~ Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job
* Love is unconditional, relationships are not. ~ Grant Gudmundson
* Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. ~ Cicero
* In God we trust, all others we virus scan. ~ Author Unknown

Trust Quotes

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* Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. ~ Stephen R. Covey
* You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. ~ Frank Cane
* Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside. ~ Tony Alessandra
* The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. ~ Count di Camillo Cavour
* As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ~ Goethe
* The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
* Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock
* Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~ Booker T. Washington
* One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~ E.M. Forster
* To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~ George MacDonald
* A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~ Cardinal De Retz
* The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust. ~ Brian Tracy
* You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi
* Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Military Quotes

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…  –Patrick Henry

Victory belongs to the most persevering. –Napoleon Bonaparte

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. –Thomas Jefferson

We have met the enemy and they are ours! –Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813

Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) –Julius Caesar

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. –John Stewart Mill


War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over. –William Tecumseh Sherman

Freedom isn’t free. –Anonymous

Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. –Winston Churchill

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn’t move, pick it up; and if you can’t pick it up, paint it. –Anonymous (1940’s saying)

The ‘eathen in ‘is blindness must end where ‘e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! –Rudyard Kipling

Soldiers are men…most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war. –Henry Knyvett

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general. –Adapted from Henry G. Bohn

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats. –Josephus Daniels

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other. –Napoleon I

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem. –Ronald Reagan

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. –John F. Kennedy

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. –Admiral David D. Porter, USN

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. –George Patton

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. –Will Rogers

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. –Thucydides

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. –Napoleon Bonaparte

We make war that we may live in peace. –Aristotle

In war there is no substitute for victory. –General Douglas MacArthur

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. –Ernest Miller Hemmingway

The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. –Charles Edward Montague

Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. –Oscar Wilde

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.–Blake Clark

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.–Helvetius

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. –Samuel Johnson

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. –George Orwell

Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. –GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired Recon Marine

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.–Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne

Philosophy Quotes

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“The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell

“Whenever people agree with me I feel I must be wrong.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some people drown, that’s all. It’s not fair but it happens. Some people drown.” – Stephen King, Stand By Me

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone

“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.” – Graham Greene

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” – Sigmund Freud

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Mark Twain

“In the long run we are all dead.” – John Maynard Keynes

“The grass is always greener in a cemetary.” – Amanda Gonzalez

“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.” – Donald R. Perry Marquis

Drinking Quotes

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“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.” –Homer Simpson

“People who drink light “beer” don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.” –Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI.

“I’m not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.” –Noel Coward

“Drinking Light Beer is like having sex in a canoe…fucking close to water. – Unknown

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” –Frank Sinatra

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” –Ernest Hemingway

“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.” –W.C. Fields

“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?” –Stephen Wright

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” –Dave Barry

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” –Henny Youngman

“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.” –Jack Handy

“All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.” –Homer Simpson

“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” –Dean Martin

“I drink to make other people interesting.” –George Jean Nathan

“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.” –Dave Barry

Love Quotes

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* “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken
* “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones
* “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” ~ Erica Jong
* “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle
* “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~ Richard Bach
* “Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
* When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
* “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~ Janos Arnay
* “Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…” ~ John Dunne
* “I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.” ~ Andre Gide
* “It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.” ~ Jaka
* “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~ John Keats
* “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it…you and you alone make me feel that I am alive…Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” ~ George Moore
* And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”. ~ Kahlil Gibran
* “The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.” ~ Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist
* “A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.” ~ George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic
* “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” ~ Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician, Scientist, Theologian
* “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist, Playwright, Anthropologist

Romantic Quotes For Your Girlfriend

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* “Soul mates. It’s extremely rare, but it exists. It’s sort of like twin souls tuned into each other.”~ What Dreams May Come
* “I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” ~ When Harry Met Sally
* “Only you, you’re the only thing I’ll see forever. In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do.” ~ West Side Story
* “I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No…not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening. but love that…overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.” ~ Shakespeare in Love
* “It’s only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are all I am. You are all my reasons”.~ The Beautiful Mind
* “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds and that’s what you’ve given me. ~ The Notebook
* Look. I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But, I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me. ~ The Phantom of Opera
* “…..I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met…” ~ The Wedding Date
* “Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you add them all up, they meant that we were supposed to be together…..and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home…..only to no home I’d ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like…..magic.” ~ Sleepless in Seattle
* “I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul and to me, this has always been enough.” ~ The Notebook
* “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life” ~ Liv Tyler, The Lord of the Rings
* “I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you” ~ Chow Yun-Fat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
* You make me want to be a better man” ~ Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets
* Why can you not stop saying what is in yours? Why must you lead, when I want to lead? If I want to dance I will ask you to dance. If I want to speak I will open my mouth and speak. Everyone is forever plaguing me to speak further. Why? What good is it to tell you you are in my every thought from the time I wake? What good can come from my saying that I sometimes cannot think clearly or do my work properly? What gain can rise of my telling you the only time I feel fear as others do is when I think of you in harm ~ Lucius Hunt, The Village
* Melanie: What do you want to marry me for anyhow? Jake: So I can kiss you anytime I want. And a little extra…~ Sweet Home Alabama
* “If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?” ~ Casper, Movie
* Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re gone.” ~ Titanic Theme, My Heart Will Go On