<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's called partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's called partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58287]]></link><description><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</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[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health of public broadcasting rests on people actually being able to build a career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8901]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam  Like islands on a dark blue sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam  Like islands on a dark blue sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republic of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republic of letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is intelligent laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36626]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I did as good as I could. I'm a senior, so I'm happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I did as good as I could. I'm a senior, so I'm happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   Monopolized, because of which    It falls to me to labor as     A Little Brother of the Rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44139</guid></item></channel></rss>