<?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[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935]]></link><description><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was hard to come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially when you get the curly koa. Because of the complexity of the grain, it's a very challenging wood. Mango is a fabulous wood and it's underrated. For some reason, it doesn't carry the influence that koa does. Mango is some beautiful wood. I work some 30 varieties, generally, because I love the variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34600]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2685]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44119]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd   The itch, on purpose to be scratched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was certainly versatile. He played everything from point guard to post-up center, and he played it all well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was certainly versatile. He played everything from point guard to post-up center, and he played it all well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item></channel></rss>