<?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[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given tous. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage anddetermination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52217]]></link><description><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</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[He loved politicians - even Republicans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47022]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved politicians - even Republicans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know the language I have lived in.   A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious.    Pray speak in English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse relies not solely on one hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50856]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse relies not solely on one hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve did a great job at Mirage, but MGM is the acquiring entity here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve did a great job at Mirage, but MGM is the acquiring entity here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27209]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even more continuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60327]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38302]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item></channel></rss>