<?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[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60674]]></link><description><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64246]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56006]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit  Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gentleman said it was his quest to have gooseberry pie at RAGBRAI. He said he didn't get any the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One gentleman said it was his quest to have gooseberry pie at RAGBRAI. He said he didn't get any the other year until he was getting on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very important misconception is that some think we are a venture-capital firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very important misconception is that some think we are a venture-capital firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were welcoming, happy and proud of metro Detroit as their hometown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was sometimes you get the breaks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an unbelievable recovery (to get on the green) from where he was sometimes you get the breaks and sometimes you don't. That's golf. I couldn't be prouder of Rob and the rest of the entire team. Six under on this course is absolutely phenomenal. Nobody else was under par and we've got some tremendous golfers in this conference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</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[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58831]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until she smiled on me:    Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,     A well of love, a spring of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of waverers, fiery energy in a world of disillusion, purity in an age of easy morals, firm brotherhood in a loose society, heroic courage in a time of persecution, formed a problem that could not be set aside, however polite society might affect to ignore it: and the religion of the future turned on the answer to it. Would the world be able to explain it better than the Christians, who said it was the living power of the risen Saviour?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794</guid></item></channel></rss>