<?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[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22910]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3074]]></link><description><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ever won,   Save base authority from others' books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood   For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea    Of grass that waves around thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15455]]></link><description><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take in all, and verge enough for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210</guid></item></channel></rss>