While unpacking the last of my boxes I came across a long forgotten book called Famous Last Words, my personal favourites:
"I am in a duel to death with this wallpaper. One of us has to go".
- Oscar Wilde
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---".
- General John Sedgwick
(General Sedgwick was a corps commander of the Army of the Potomac who enjoyed a reputation among his men as a good-humoured guy and relentless optimist. At the Battle of the Wilderness, while other mean were diving for cover from Confederate sharpshooters, Sedgwick scoffed at the danger, stood up, and caught a bullet in the face.)