<?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[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's a whole lot of sophomores who have no idea what they're in store for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31196]]></link><description><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4329]]></link><description><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63986</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[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295</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[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31389]]></link><description><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat buffet and they devour everything, there's a point at which the management has to come over and say, 'Enough's enough!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903]]></link><description><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, we may see another rally between now and the end of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24532]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied  As all the tuned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied  As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;   But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,    He was as rattling thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item></channel></rss>