<?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[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32295]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.    Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are made; each zone   Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be the change you want to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be the change you want to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54573]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words leave off, music begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words leave off, music begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55748]]></link><description><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46224</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[Such pains they take to look pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains they take to look pretty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All covet, all lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All covet, all lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item></channel></rss>