<?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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit goes his way, I think it can happen for him this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12241</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[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a marked man, his time has come. He's the son of God for heaven's sake, he knows his words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39704]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a marked man, his time has come. He's the son of God for heaven's sake, he knows his words are revolutionary, they're rocking the boats, challenging the vested interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the country or as they were boarding the planes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47750]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession falls from this,   How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,--    I am perplext, and often stricken mute.     Wondering which attained the higher bliss,      The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis       It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7346]]></link><description><![CDATA[God wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as well as school children from District 22, and a host of Dawson County residents and others in surrounding counties, we were able to help the families furnish their living quarters and obtain food and clothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in visits   Like those of angels, short and far between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40479]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so long as you live peaceably, and you have the word of a king for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once they see what we can do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity and finishing games out. The 1-3-1 zone has been working really well for us. We force turnovers by the other team and get the fast break going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5042]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item></channel></rss>