<?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[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O fateful flower beside the rill-- The Daffodil, the daffodil!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10972]]></link><description><![CDATA["O fateful flower beside the rill-- The Daffodil, the daffodil!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band really speaks to college kids and the response for them is overwhelming. They were what we thought of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38214]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band really speaks to college kids and the response for them is overwhelming. They were what we thought of as the future of rock music, and we wanted to get behind them and give them our seal of approval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53441]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [It., L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17143]]></link><description><![CDATA[An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to affect any one service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30872]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready to move there, too,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption   Inhabits our frail blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would bring him on to some confession   Of his true state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a punishment   Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all is won that all desire to woo,   The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736]]></link><description><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35281]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item></channel></rss>