<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>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[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares, wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares, wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman  To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. •James Allen   All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre   No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose   He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller   Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell   Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells   Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver   I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan   Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius   The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia   You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney  Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell   My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln   Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton   I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton   There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward   Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb   A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty   Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson   Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone   Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn  There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter   If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller   Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote   There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda   Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno   Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson   Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot   I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope   Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar  A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of brightness made,)   That's both her lustre and her shade),    And in the lantern of the night,     With shining horns hung out her light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1693]]></link><description><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and it was over with. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give up on anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give up on anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with the humane society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item></channel></rss>