<?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[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ever been around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5692]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a new Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</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[I think this will help us play well. Sometimes when we play at home we can stagnate, but playing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this will help us play well. Sometimes when we play at home we can stagnate, but playing in a new place and a new field can give us energy. I think that is an advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I.  If I must have a villa in summer to dwell,   Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458</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[A leap year Is never a good sheep year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me shots, so I had to take them. We all have the green light if we're open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan to the extent they used to do in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair as ever and as fit to use;   So both the flower doth stay and honey run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our success. By continuing to expand our array of quality products, and fulfilling our promise to consistently deliver outstanding customer service and product quality, we are attempting to meet the needs of our customers and as a result, also expand our sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40603</guid></item></channel></rss>