"This can't be much of a party if I'm the guest of honor," he said on turning 85 in 1975, two years before his death.

"I began to get so mad," he said before his death in 2001.

"I think I had a beautiful life," he said not long before his death in 1971.

"I've led a most full life," he said to his wife just before his death.

"History will vindicate me," Buchanan said just before his death in 1868.

"I was surprised by how much 40 hours at work drained me," he said in a hospital interview shortly before his death.

"You may serve me in only one way," Nuihc had said a thousand times before his death.

"Oh, does Kathleen squawk about that," he once said of his wife before her death a few years ago.

"I have to find out once and for all if I can paint," he said three years before his death at the age of 48.

"I was stunned," she said shortly before her death earlier this year.