<?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're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62860]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60580]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13969]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23672]]></link><description><![CDATA[A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use it or lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use it or lose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience by itself is not science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience by itself is not science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10333]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item></channel></rss>