<?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[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40184]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could see that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret if only he may express the beauty he has seen, the martyr who will obey God in the scorn of consequence, are all religious men or, at least, are men who illustrate that principle which lies behind religion. Truth, Beauty, Goodness -- these are sacred, the object of man's true love and reverence. He to whom nothing is sacred, all questions are open, and the distinction between right and wrong is blurred, is an enslaved, not an emancipated, spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196]]></link><description><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O month when they who love must love and wed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26612]]></link><description><![CDATA[O month when they who love must love and wed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60510]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;  A smile within his eyelids plays   And into words his longing gushes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42887]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was announced May 24, 2005. We appreciate the thorough and efficient review of the transaction by regulatory officials and parties to the proceedings in each state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727]]></link><description><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63474]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55501]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With tooth and nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With tooth and nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7526</guid></item></channel></rss>