<?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[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our children’s futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our children’s futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to millionaires. If we can’t put our children first, who can we put first? If we can’t put our kids first, what does it say about our nation?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64633]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805]]></link><description><![CDATA[They give them to someone who has done something inspirational and beyond the call of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   What unto themselves was taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time like the pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21691]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time like the pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36177]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ability of governments like Brazil to enforce environmental laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst businessmistake if I don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst businessmistake if I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64463]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17553]]></link><description><![CDATA[This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739</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 soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29158</guid></item></channel></rss>