<?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[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can only say this situation presented me with an opportunity to move forward. My wife and I were pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can only say this situation presented me with an opportunity to move forward. My wife and I were pleased to use this time to move into a new life for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by their example, pattern out   Their limitations, and regard of laws:    A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61638]]></link><description><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52278]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62659]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a native of Wisconsin, he knows our state. We are getting a very well-rounded and bright person to join our staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63208]]></link><description><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16210]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose,"   Replies a Flea upon his nose;    "Be humble, learn thyself to scan;     Know, pride was never made for man."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With light volume, we're going to bounce around like a ping-pong ball. I wouldn't take any moves this week as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36834]]></link><description><![CDATA[With light volume, we're going to bounce around like a ping-pong ball. I wouldn't take any moves this week as a clear indication of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted to do, and that was run for an elected office and tell people that I was out there and I'm available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66678]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't have any hope, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't have any hope, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9394</guid></item></channel></rss>