<?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[Energy and persistence conquer all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows,    Most barren with best using.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking this weekend to sit down and rehash what needs to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking this weekend to sit down and rehash what needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</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 don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love--  And, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54408]]></link><description><![CDATA[In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love--  And, with the instinct of the homing dove,   I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge.    And when imperious Death     Has quenched my flame of breath,      Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4499]]></link><description><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early this afternoon, the National Police have detained five people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early this afternoon, the National Police have detained five people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I win or I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I win or I die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has broken the law and I know that he had a problem of abusing, but inside of him he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has broken the law and I know that he had a problem of abusing, but inside of him he is kind and loving and caring, too, and people who know him well know that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42389]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement in 2002, ... As physicians we should make judicious use of CT scans a priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All movements go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64403]]></link><description><![CDATA[All movements go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is thought in cold storage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is thought in cold storage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40894]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40894</guid></item></channel></rss>