confessions of a messed up mind

Friday, February 18, 2005

Catch This

live everyday like it is the last day of your life because one of these days it will be.

Last One

"I bequeath to my beloved parrot, faithful companion of 25 years, an annuity for life of 200 guineas a year, to be paid half-yearly..... to whoever it may have the care of it and proves it's identity."
elizabeth orby hunter,
baroness of lincolnshire, 1813

More.......

"I bequeath to mary davis the sum of 5 shillings, which is sufficient to enable her to get drunk with for the last time at my expense, and i give a like sum to Charles Peter, son of Mary, whom I am reputed to be the father of, but never had or ever shall have any reason to believe."
David Davis,
angry husband in Clapham,England,1788

One more

"I leave my right hand, to be cut off after death, to my son in hopes that such a sight may remind him of his duty to God, after having so long abandoned the duty he owed to a father"

Philip Thicknesse,
Esquire,Bologne in France,1796

funny quote

"I leave my entire estate to my wife, on the condition that she shall remarry, so there will be at least one man who regrets my death."
Heinrich Heine,
18th century German Romantic poet