<?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[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight when Pate went out of the game. Burton made a run and took the lead, and we responded back. I was proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16717]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44542]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   As he were fearful that an April night    Would be too short for him to utter forth     His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul      Of all its music!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come!  And fast thy soul is fleeting   To seek its starry home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57754]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49544]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56866]]></link><description><![CDATA[In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,   Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55581]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29251]]></link><description><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more quickly. If there are problems on weekends, there's always somebody around to help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-comps are a very small part of the overall auction, of course. There was no sloppiness in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-comps are a very small part of the overall auction, of course. There was no sloppiness in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, believe me, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more research we have, the better, ... Those treatments that are found to be effective will, believe me, be incorporated in the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nichole has one goal in life, as far as basketball, and that is to help her team win. She has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nichole has one goal in life, as far as basketball, and that is to help her team win. She has no selfishness about her. Really whatever we emphasize in a game, she really tries to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4153]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished; And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</guid></item></channel></rss>