<?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[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53281]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for her. We're trying to break that perception, because obviously our median age is not 14.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carroll Dawson has served this organization very well over the past 26 years, and he will continue to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carroll Dawson has served this organization very well over the past 26 years, and he will continue to be a very useful resource for many years to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</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[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26614]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with the increase in the US current account deficit, which the market usually shrugs off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57111]]></link><description><![CDATA[cslab9a /u/jcn/src/perl -> man sex No manual entry for sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57174]]></link><description><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of alarms,   Than reign in this horrible place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader. I expect to be calling Mr. Naughton directly as I always have in the past. If she wants to know what I'm doing, she can always call me. I'll be happy to respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love going fast and I also love the jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love going fast and I also love the jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346</guid></item></channel></rss>