<?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[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64605]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24095]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,  The morn not waking till she sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A concept is stronger than a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59278]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989</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[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bird has ever uttered note  That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bird has ever uttered note  That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall  No rose has been original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's. For, when we open the New Testament, it is to come upon whole companies of excited people, their faces all aglow, their hearts dazed and bewildered by the immensity of their own good fortune. Apparently they find it difficult to think of anything but this amazing happening that has befallen them; quite certainly they cannot keep from laying almost violent hands on every chance passer-by, and pouring out yet once again the whole astounding story. And always, as we listen, they keep throwing up their hands as if in sheer despair, telling us it is hopeless, that it breaks through language, that it won't describe, that until a man has known Christ for himself he can have no idea of the enormous difference He makes. It is as when a woman gives a man her heart; or when a little one is born to very you; or when, after long lean years of pain and greyness, health comes back. You cannot really describe that; you cannot put it into words, not adequately. Only, the whole world is different, and life gloriously new. Well, it is like that, they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57119]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559</guid></item></channel></rss>