<?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 harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to win now, because this one didn't help. I was really happy with her effort on the mound. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to win now, because this one didn't help. I was really happy with her effort on the mound. The girls tried to battle back, but it was a real bummer of a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16995]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'll take most of the quarter to ramp up production of the iMac, and we're unlikely to be able meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'll take most of the quarter to ramp up production of the iMac, and we're unlikely to be able meet expected demand for the quarter, ... We certainly hope more than half of the iMac sales this quarter will be the new iMacs. How much over half it goes will depend on supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really obvious what went on to the players and managers. I hope what is being done will stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really obvious what went on to the players and managers. I hope what is being done will stop what was going on and also stop any possibility of further problems. I certainly hope this will be the end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35320]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I concede! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22243]]></link><description><![CDATA[I concede!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they brought her name up, I said I'm not going to talk about it. It hurts. It hurts so much. I didn't put her photo in a frame where I could see it. I stored it all away. I kept them, and every once in a while I'd look through them for a few minutes and then put it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956</guid></item><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[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182</guid></item></channel></rss>