<?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[The developers have to go back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5837]]></link><description><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set   His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud    Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give     Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him      Eternally--bidding the lip of man       Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour        Incense of awe-struck praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was me being selfish and just going around thinking everything should go my way. I was thinking about transferring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was me being selfish and just going around thinking everything should go my way. I was thinking about transferring and didn't know where I was going to go, but after I sat back and talked to some people I trusted and loved, I found out that wasn't the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy always came after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy always came after pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to have been here to see us get to the World Cup,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;  For I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;  For I have bought it with an hundred blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a 12-step program. The first step is to admit you have a problem. They still have 11 steps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a 12-step program. The first step is to admit you have a problem. They still have 11 steps to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44883]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a tragic situation from our perspective. Something we are very concerned about in terms of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a tragic situation from our perspective. Something we are very concerned about in terms of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61579]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61579</guid></item></channel></rss>