<?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[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9568]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more to take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050]]></link><description><![CDATA[One that is neither flesh not fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</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[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63043]]></link><description><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato perit sanguine Cappadocis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people!  To bear the miseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people!  To bear the miseries of a people!   And sink beneath a load of splendid care!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be smarter than the people who hire you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind;  Freedom from passion and from care,   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind;  Freedom from passion and from care,   If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have been penalized for both of those in the month of July, as they were in the month of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35505]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have been penalized for both of those in the month of July, as they were in the month of June and the month of May, ... Are we seeing improvement? I am happy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen  Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All keyes hang not on one girdle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49105]]></link><description><![CDATA[All keyes hang not on one girdle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42264</guid></item></channel></rss>