<?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[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65999]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success produces success, just as money produces money]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the frying pan into the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the frying pan into the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53331]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cellar Roots has great potential. We want to continue publishing EMU students' writing and artwork. It is important as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cellar Roots has great potential. We want to continue publishing EMU students' writing and artwork. It is important as a resume builder as well as a source for gaining writing and publishing experience. It is an important part of our mission to continue doing this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he is -- he could move into the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just moved a few months ago, so I wasn't thinking he'd propose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am -- and was then -- 5-foot-3, 138 pounds, and I stood next to 6-foot-6, 240-pound linemen and scolded them, telling them if they hit a little harder we might win a few games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4354]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?      It may be for years and it may be forever;       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61751]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483]]></link><description><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the image of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the image of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is the great idealizer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is the great idealizer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth,  To that last nothing under earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29751]]></link><description><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29751</guid></item></channel></rss>