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Benito Mussolini – Italian dictator to the partisan who shot him
"But --- but --- Colonel ---"

Sir William Robert Nicoll – Theologian
"I believe everything that I have written about immortality."

Lawrence E.G. Oates – A member of Scott’s expedition to the South Pole (believing he was a burden to the group)
"I am just going outside and may be some time."

Torlogh O’Carolan – Irish Poet – on asking for his last whiskey
"It would be hard if such friends should part as least without kissing."

Wilfred Owen – English Poet – To one of his men during WWI
"Well done --- You are doing very well, my boy."

William Palmer – hanged for poinsoning a friend – As he stepped onto the gallows trap
"Are you sure it’s safe?"

Carl Panzram – Executed for murdering 23 people
"I wish the human race had one neck and I had my hands around it."

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Even the Butler was Poor

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Speaking of screen stars, there’s a mosquito. – Franklin Pierce Adams

There’s an old story about a Hollywood school child (in the days when the children of movie stars went to schools in Hollywood) who was instructed to write an essay on poverty. “Once upon a time,” this moppet wrote, “there was a very poor family. The father was poor, and the mother was poor. The butler was poor; the maid was poor; the chauffer was poor, and the gardeners were poor.” – Alex Barris

American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted. – St. John Ervine

Benito Mussolini was paid two dollars a day in Rome for playing an extra in Sam Goldwyn’s The Eternal City; Leon Trotsky made three dollars a day (in 1915) when he played in Rasputin at Fort Lee, New Jersey; the Duchess of Windsor, then known as Wallis Simpson, is reported to have drawn down five dollars from extra work in many pictures in Hollywood. – Leo Guild

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