<?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[If you can accept losing, you can't win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been   If we had never met!    And has that thought been shared by thee?     Ah, no! that smiling cheek      Proves more unchanging love for me       Than labor'd words could speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,  Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43928]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65900]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. All of my remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39590]]></link><description><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled   Its waves of emerald and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/79]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/79</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32313]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66913]]></link><description><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505</guid></item></channel></rss>