<?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[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,   And shed their substance on the floating air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35698]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23079]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access to information was really limited. We had fragmented data sources, inconsistent metrics across the business, model assumptions that were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Access to information was really limited. We had fragmented data sources, inconsistent metrics across the business, model assumptions that were different from business to business. It was a really fragmented way of doing business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11950]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding brings control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding brings control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56111]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  And when down the midnight the owl call "to-whoo"!   Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too;    Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb,     So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years;  Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,   In secret, in silence, and tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart and soul of the question is whether they can charge us impact fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57572</guid></item></channel></rss>