<?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[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gassed up the car and everything. They are ready to go at any point,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun inviting television stars -- over the objections of purists who argue that only radio performers should be welcome.] If it becomes 'Friends of Old-Time Television,' I'm out of there, ... Let's Pretend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow;  Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,   For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get more nervous for (Josh) than I did when I wrestled. I wanted him to do well. I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get more nervous for (Josh) than I did when I wrestled. I wanted him to do well. I knew how much pressure he had. I'm so happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64171</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[The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,   Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,    And all the comforts that the lowly roof     Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours      Of long uninterrupted evening, know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63256]]></link><description><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, thinking it tragic that I had to endure such traumas both as a child and throughout my life, but I confess that I have rather pitied those who have never tasted the bitterness of a trial "too severe." For how is one to appreciate the contrast of light's dawning hope if his soul has never trembled through the dark hours of a nightmare's watch? Or how can one prove God's faithfulness if he never is granted the privilege of wandering through a barren desert, where only pools of Christ's Presence can possibly provide survival? It is a great honor to be apportioned pain. Christ Himself, though God incarnate, learned obedience through what He suffered. Dare we assume that we as His children can be taught by any wiser or kinder instructor than the severity of unwanted pain? We dare not steel ourselves against our trials, running away from the fires where our pruned branches crumble to ashes. For if we escape those flames, we will risk barrenness of soul and will miss out on the beauty that only is born through the ashes of yesterday's grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36899]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36899</guid></item></channel></rss>