<?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[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ever won,   Save base authority from others' books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23165]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. [Ger., O der alles vergrossernden Eifersucht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17977]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[do not want a peaceful settlement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768]]></link><description><![CDATA[do not want a peaceful settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in the industry. If Cisco wants to go after the small end of this market, in particular, it realizes it has to move forward with this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would not in mine age   Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round,   "What love can ever cure this wound?"    My days go on, my days go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great believer makes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58564]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la infamia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321]]></link><description><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321</guid></item></channel></rss>