<?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 honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64848]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do it in moderation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be innumerable township roads that we can't make an assessment on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be innumerable township roads that we can't make an assessment on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The atmosphere is different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25997]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56990]]></link><description><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The turnover in housing has a strong relationship with remodeling activity. You want to keep up with the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The turnover in housing has a strong relationship with remodeling activity. You want to keep up with the value of your investment because it is appreciating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17002]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51547]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are associated with it, ... The employees of American Airlines and American Eagle applaud and support her actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item></channel></rss>