<?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[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36157]]></link><description><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves . . . We found a way to be really happy and this way we're able to do it on our own . . . it's exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated!  Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!   What triumph! hark!--what pain!    . . . .     Again--thou hearest?      Eternal passion!       Eternal pain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest concern is our time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22880]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's going to hurt these kids for a while, but a month from now, we'll be celebrating what we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While UGA and Georgia State want to do this, Georgia Tech does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33084]]></link><description><![CDATA[While UGA and Georgia State want to do this, Georgia Tech does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse   That God or Nature hath assignde    Though much I want that most would have     Yet still my minde forbids to crave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women),   Be worse provided than a common archer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50578</guid></item></channel></rss>