<?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[As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11264]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623]]></link><description><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</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[The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contrast with a Labour agenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contrast with a Labour agenda for increased trade, prosperity and opportunity across the EU.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38668]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got them all back in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside. I saw the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? We proved to people we could play and that gave us confidence heading into states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65144]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long struggle in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long struggle in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people right now want to point fingers and criticize, but people should keep their powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38115</guid></item></channel></rss>