<?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[I started looking forward to this season after that game against Hilliard. I am ready to get back into it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started looking forward to this season after that game against Hilliard. I am ready to get back into it. Last year was exciting, and we want to make it even further this year (in playoffs).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</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[Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions;  Thereof the raging fire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions;  Thereof the raging fire of fever bred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great honor that the other coaches in this league have voted me as the Coach of the Year, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39672]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great honor that the other coaches in this league have voted me as the Coach of the Year, but in all reality it would have never happened without the season-long effort of each member on our team and our assistant coaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,   He lays for us the pillows straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38631]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever on the overall profitability of our business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60209]]></link><description><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52193]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from proof-of-concept to prototyping and early manufacturing stages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126]]></link><description><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us of your shame.    Your banner's constellation types     White freedom with its stars,      But what's the meaning of the stripes?       They mean your negroes' scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of courage is also full of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10278]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of courage is also full of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and its employees. I'm truly sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss   I carried from thee dear; and my true lip    Hath virgined it e'er since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can live for two months on a good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can live for two months on a good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be concerned, and rightly so,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36851]]></link><description><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36851</guid></item></channel></rss>