<?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[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32963]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll just have to wait until October for that to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30604]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll just have to wait until October for that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures help you to form the mental mold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures help you to form the mental mold...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17086]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46129]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thought our business would grow this fast, but more people are becoming aware of this technology. In our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thought our business would grow this fast, but more people are becoming aware of this technology. In our state of current affairs, people are fed up and looking for alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not reckoned a religious bird   Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42418]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot.] Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/335]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players deny the criminal allegations. We continue to monitor the situation and will respond accordingly to further developments as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players deny the criminal allegations. We continue to monitor the situation and will respond accordingly to further developments as the facts become known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item></channel></rss>