<?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[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43397]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13006]]></link><description><![CDATA[How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60339]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144]]></link><description><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 hits against the University of Mary, so it's capable of doing it. Right now our confidence is just lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29207]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in a sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28389]]></link><description><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,  There is society where none intrudes   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52474]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160]]></link><description><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031</guid></item></channel></rss>