<?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[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398]]></link><description><![CDATA[desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51446]]></link><description><![CDATA[When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity, religion, disability - people of all types experience ageism, and indeed people of all ages experience ageism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last four years they've been saying, 'There's no way it will last for one more game. No way.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32092]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last four years they've been saying, 'There's no way it will last for one more game. No way.' But it's still here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and not according to 'Oh, these people are suffering so and let us declare it invalid.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13857]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the court didn't think this (Texas) was materially different from the Pennsylvania case, they wouldn't have taken it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42137]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the court didn't think this (Texas) was materially different from the Pennsylvania case, they wouldn't have taken it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to work to correspond to an image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19484]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun,  And in the dawn they floated on  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun,  And in the dawn they floated on   And mingled into one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip up or take a play off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation. Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation. Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's hand to take rates up faster than the market currently anticipates?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401</guid></item></channel></rss>