<?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 do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39514]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at the University of Houston and against some other Division I competition. That's probably a little more competition than we needed, but we competed well and now we're ready to see how we do outdoors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47013]]></link><description><![CDATA[In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51739]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is tact that is golden, not silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is tact that is golden, not silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an expert to point out the obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an expert to point out the obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3885]]></link><description><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosopy is the most important thing in life. Everything else is born from there.Sean Baltz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosopy is the most important thing in life. Everything else is born from there.Sean Baltz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26974]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5455]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24668]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64664]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through standalone DSL furthers this goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item></channel></rss>