<?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[CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-endingImprovement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21266]]></link><description><![CDATA[CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-endingImprovement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21266</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[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471]]></link><description><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it pretty well,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35628]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disagreement involving students from our College at Florham and Metropolitan Campus and guests attending an Association of Black Collegians dance at Florham on Saturday evening resulted in an escalating confrontation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In mylife, what I want and what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In mylife, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roche is one of the most outstanding companies in the pharmaceutical industry in our view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roche is one of the most outstanding companies in the pharmaceutical industry in our view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be real nice. We are going to serve breakfast in the mornings and burgers at lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be real nice. We are going to serve breakfast in the mornings and burgers at lunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's lamp   Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late    Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world's most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364</guid></item></channel></rss>