<?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[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money just draws flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money just draws flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25388]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This lends stability to the company. It's always good to let people know who's in charge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30404]]></link><description><![CDATA[This lends stability to the company. It's always good to let people know who's in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</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[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289]]></link><description><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3708]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066]]></link><description><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice Is a celestial melody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice Is a celestial melody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35811]]></link><description><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve of the 2006 budget,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35811</guid></item></channel></rss>