<?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[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been an interesting group. Most days we start seven or eight freshmen. They've handled situations pretty well, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been an interesting group. Most days we start seven or eight freshmen. They've handled situations pretty well, and we also have pretty good leadership from our sophomore class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God we trust; all others must pay cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of corresponding profitability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we took a bad shot or turned the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was 10 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  You credit anything the light gives life to   Before a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and make a move when they see something unethical. Thailand has had enough lessons in this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44528]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44528</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[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kurtis has grown up in a number of ways since last spring. Today he's a consistent baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29549</guid></item></channel></rss>