<?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[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau  Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin  The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor  For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown  Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain  The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg   Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille  I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln  The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx  Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647]]></link><description><![CDATA[No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31426]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show  Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral   Made the attraction, and the black the woe;    There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49681]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nomura needs to expand its online business to target a mass customer base. It used to be all about institutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nomura needs to expand its online business to target a mass customer base. It used to be all about institutional investors. But this is going to be the age of the individual investor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3788]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes you get in and sometimes you don't. But the judges do the best they can. If they saw something that kept me out of the top three, I have to respect that and keep working on my riding. All I can do is improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47383]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches The innermost recesses of my spirit! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches The innermost recesses of my spirit!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473]]></link><description><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is everything a coach could ask for in a hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creatively, this is the best job I've ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creatively, this is the best job I've ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17084]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte   A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer   True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington   Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous   Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle   A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17   Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton   A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson   The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald   We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld   God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford   Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan   Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb   Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare   The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith   A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau   Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13  The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain   Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire   Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde   Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf  Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon  Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater  Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis  If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon  There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb  To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton  We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh  Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater  Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler  A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson,  If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal  I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch  There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon  Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald  A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero   Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron   To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero   Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare   That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles   He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert  Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter   Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne   The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha   Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca   The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa  Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine   The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere   One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams  A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel  While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous  Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran  The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau   There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha   The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln   If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson   You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus  True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington  But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson  True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item></channel></rss>