<?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[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned the value of hard work by working hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last game, and this, we've been eaten up by penalties. Don't blame the boys. It's basically coaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26193]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in businesssuccess...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfullywithin these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so muchabout, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty much every team we play is going to be in the top 15, and with us being ranked so high, teams are going to give us all they got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19863]]></link><description><![CDATA[So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22958]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, 'Hey, at least get our permission first'. It's good that lawmakers in Wisconsin are paying attention to the fact that this technology even exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,   And trembl'd with fear at your frown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;    But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,     Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;      But when they should endure the bloody spur,       They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades        Sink in the trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orange is the happiest color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11068</guid></item></channel></rss>