<?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[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;    Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,     Purger of earth, and medicine of men;      Creating a sweet climate by my breath,       Washing out harms and griefs from memory,        And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,         Giving a hint of that which changes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need clarification from the court as to what exactly it means when (statute) says we're exempt from impact fees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33437]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need clarification from the court as to what exactly it means when (statute) says we're exempt from impact fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14174]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They can anticipate demand a lot better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is the city's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is the city's deal. And the governor encourages them to do something sooner than later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   Life provides all kinds of astonishingly effective anodynes and narcotics, all of which are nothing but misused gifts of God. But there in hell--that is, beyond a fixed boundary set by God--all the securities and safeguards disappear into thin air. What here is only a tiny flame of secret self-reproach that flickers up occasionally and is quickly smothered, there becomes a scorching fire. What here is no more than a slight ticking sound in our conscience suddenly becomes the trumpet tone of judgment which can no longer be ignored. Lazarus is permitted to see what he believed, but the rich man is compelled to see what he did not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make   The bounds of freedom wider yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19465]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15594]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; and you among the store,   One more, most welcome, makes my number more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65050]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the last few years. We've had big one-day rallies that didn't really show any sustainability -- so my hope is that the market will hold here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49092]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22331]]></link><description><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66485</guid></item></channel></rss>