<?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[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49694]]></link><description><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. I definitely knew I'd be coming into a school with another talented guard, and you have to enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/126]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages. Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11549]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week in our section final (against Wayzata) we had two goals that they called off on us, and it didn't change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32408]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not to say that nuts and bolts contractors are at a disadvantage, ... But if you look at long-term trends, there will need to be more refurbishing of a lot of equipment so I've been increasingly looking towards tech-slanted defense contractors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road you can get the same thing for a lower price. They think just because people don't have cars that they can jack up the prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is out of my mind but forever in my heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over by the animals,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560</guid></item></channel></rss>