<?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 medicine chest of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound    (So should desert in arms be crowned).     The lovely Thais by his side,      Sate like a blooming Eastern bride       In flower of youth and beauty's pride.        Happy, happy, happy pair!         None but the brave,          None but the brave,           None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5075]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26573]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47519]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23808]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are your choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are your choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was certainly versatile. He played everything from point guard to post-up center, and he played it all well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was certainly versatile. He played everything from point guard to post-up center, and he played it all well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19384]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vision of God's creation on the move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32285]]></link><description><![CDATA[[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, he sold several scripts but none ended up on the screen.] It occurred to me after a while -- I didn't understand why I was setting myself up for two careers where I was going to be rejected, ... You can do it all right with one, but come on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps only 7 to 10 percent at most of the cost of producing a wafer is labor. So there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps only 7 to 10 percent at most of the cost of producing a wafer is labor. So there is a whole host of other factors that make a wafer fab competitive and the cost of labor is not really one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801]]></link><description><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go out there and do what you have to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go out there and do what you have to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62820</guid></item></channel></rss>