<?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[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35283]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19611]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anwser is no untill you ask the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anwser is no untill you ask the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my vain self, and vain things which have power   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. [Lat., Sed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. [Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38668]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got them all back in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not let daylight in upon the magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15316]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3108]]></link><description><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is passion tamed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is passion tamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we could be competitive and challenge for it. Playing tough and beating them (Great Falls and Lewisville) are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we could be competitive and challenge for it. Playing tough and beating them (Great Falls and Lewisville) are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would pay thousands of dollars]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32914</guid></item></channel></rss>