<?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[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a design flaw, ... A little flaw, but they latched on to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a design flaw, ... A little flaw, but they latched on to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything?  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,   Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50484]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28503]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still will keep   A bower quiet for us, and a sleep    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really have never bought into that San Francisco game, and maybe players might have a different view, ... My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really have never bought into that San Francisco game, and maybe players might have a different view, ... My feeling coming out of that game, as heartbreaking as it was, was that I thought we were pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall  Him or his children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13788]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt we'll ever call a game again with this stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt we'll ever call a game again with this stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39181]]></link><description><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5670]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way out is the way through ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way out is the way through]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66851]]></link><description><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who\'ll be with me will be my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one expects the goalkeeper to make the save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37684]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one expects the goalkeeper to make the save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers struggled, but there really wasn't much else we could do with their pitcher today. He's the best we've seen all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51082]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band,  Has yet a harder task to prove--   By firm resolve to conquer love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51082</guid></item></channel></rss>