<?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[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</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[The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and rained on for nine months before they get a chance to sit in it. Moisture is the largest enemy of construction. Once moisture gets into the material, it starts to shrink and mold even before it goes to production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All teams are going to try and prove they can beat the No. 1 team. They are going to come at us as hard as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25889]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26291]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armour is light at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Armour is light at table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you will likely call it'being myself.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!  Without a mark, without a bound,   It runneth the earth's wide regions round;    It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;     Or like a cradled creature lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any wish thou darest not pray,   Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is right reason in the doing of work.   Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is right reason in the doing of work.   Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13757]]></link><description><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15862]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou the bread of life,  Dear Lord, to me, As Thou didst break the loaves   Beside the sea; Beyond the sacred page  I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee,  O living word! Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord,  To me, to me, As Thou didst bless the bread  By Galilee; Then shall all bondage cease,  All fetters fall; And I shall find my peace,  My All-in-All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59580</guid></item></channel></rss>