<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our subs came in and did a good job to hold it close until halftime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17730]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really happy that the girls didn't quit (when they got down). Our pitcher got lit up and lit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really happy that the girls didn't quit (when they got down). Our pitcher got lit up and lit up hard. Our kids could have very easily put their heads down and quit, but they didn't. Our kids executed very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your future...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 years, so we are very good at keeping hold of people once they come to us. Even so, issues were raised about the availability of career breaks, flexible working and working from home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8199]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity supply prices at historic levels, Maine consumers cannot stand another federally imposed rate hike. At some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40278]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity supply prices at historic levels, Maine consumers cannot stand another federally imposed rate hike. At some point, you have to vote with your feet, and that?s what we did today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that and then all of a sudden you don't have him, it means you have to adjust. We're having trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy ofwhat you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44528]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A flower-garden smiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi:  Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387]]></link><description><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51148]]></link><description><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/734</guid></item></channel></rss>