<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Famous last words - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15231]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful, wonderful this death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, wonderful this death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15207]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15202</guid></item></channel></rss>