<?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 only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -King Richard III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56017]]></link><description><![CDATA[True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good indignation brings out all one's powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good indignation brings out all one's powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some breakdowns defensively. A couple of them were in transition where we missed a shot and didn't match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some breakdowns defensively. A couple of them were in transition where we missed a shot and didn't match up well. We weren't shooting the ball great early and probably got a little bit frustrated and didn't pay attention in transition like we needed to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20402]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58808]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving home from work. Imagine not knowing what you did for four entire days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42540]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,   An alligator stuffed, and other skins    Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves     A beggarly account of boxes,      Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,       Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses        Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand was sort of a blessing in disguise, because it allowed me to play four full years of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38402</guid></item></channel></rss>