HedonisT's Guide To OutSkirTs oF SiN CiTy

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  HEdoNiSm
  
  (Greek: hdon "pleasure" + –ism) describes any way of thinking that gives pleasure a central role. Hedonism can be generally summed up as "Pleasure is the highest good", or in an ethical formulation, "whatever causes pleasure is right."
  
  However, even if one assents that the highest good is pleasure, it is still difficult to ascertain what it is that brings the most pleasure. For example, a night of pleasurable heavy drinking can lead to painful consequences that outweigh the initial pleasure.
  
  
  

FaMoUs LAsT WorDS

• "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."
  Ludwig von Beethoven
  
  "Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
  Lord George Byron
  
  "Wait a minute..."
  Pope Alexander VI
  
  "I'm bored with it all."
  Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
  
  "I am not the least afraid to die."
  Charles Dickens
  
  "Stay back, this could hurt someone."
  R. Budd Dwyer, former treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as he brandished the handgun with which he shot himself in the head moments later.
  
  "Hey Ram!..."
  Translation: This is an exclamation to Ram (or Rama), who in Hindu traditions is one of the manifestations of Vishnu. It may be translated as "Oh, God!", but is more equivalent to "Amen", and to die while speaking this is held to be a great blessing.
  Mahatma Gandhi
  
  "Bugger Bognor."
  King George V of the United Kingdom
  
  "Mehr Licht."
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  "Mehr nicht mehr."
  D. Granosalis
  
  "Water."
  Ulysses S. Grant
  
  "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."
  Ernesto "Che" Guevara, as he faced his assassin, a soldier called Mario Teran.
  
  "Ich bin Heinrich Himmler."
  Heinrich Himmler
  
  "This is funny."
  Doc Holliday
  
  "I see black light."
  Victor Hugo
  
  "I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing."
  Stan Laurel, before dying of a heart attack
  
  
  "Why not?"
  Timothy Leary
  
  "It's all been rather lovely."
  John Le Mesurier, before slipping into a final coma.
  
  
  "Well, this is certainly a pleasant surprise"
  Andrew Mutton.
  
  "Put out the light."
  Theodore Roosevelt (January 6, 1919)
  
  "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
  These were among the final words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864. They are often portrayed as if they were absolutely his last statement, the sentence often being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...". Though this may be a slightly more striking version of events, it simply is not true.
  
  "My God, what's happened?"
  Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, 31 August 1997.
  
  "Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!"
  w:Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
  
  
  "I just had eighteen straight scotches. I think that's the record."
  Dylan Thomas
  
  
  Puto deus fio
  Translation: "[Dear me!] I think I'm turning into a God..."
  Vespasian, Roman emperor
  
  "I'm all right."
  H. G. Wells
  
  "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
  Oscar Wilde
  Variation: "These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go."
  Notes: Mr. Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats. This has sometimes been misquoted as "These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go."