<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So show a little inspiration/ show a little spark/ show the world a little act when you show it your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57193]]></link><description><![CDATA[So show a little inspiration/ show a little spark/ show the world a little act when you show it your heart/ we've got two lives--one we're given,/ and the other one we make/ and the world won't stop/ and actions speak louder/ listen to your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56051]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball last year. We were just hoping he'd get it back on track, and I think he did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover over the next quarter or two,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are called but few get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are called but few get up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny;  And the miser-bees are busy   Hoarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny;  And the miser-bees are busy   Hoarding golden honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12953]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the root of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56735]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48152]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38604]]></link><description><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good job against a pretty good team in terms of scrambling. I was very disappointed in our intensity in the first half. I thought we played a real poor first half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11763</guid></item></channel></rss>