<?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[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens ... our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24831]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better buckler I can soon regain,   But who can get another life again?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13448]]></link><description><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63682]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59278]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the eye cries, the hand wipes .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21705</guid></item></channel></rss>