<?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[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40740]]></link><description><![CDATA[That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond investors tend to figure it out before the rest of the retail market and dump their bonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fierce March weather White waves break tether,  And whirled together   At either hand,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26373]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fierce March weather White waves break tether,  And whirled together   At either hand,    Like weeds uplifted,     The tree-trunks rifted      In spars are drifted,       Like foam or sand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23094]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around,   And still I seem to tread on classic ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think is to differ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52245]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think is to differ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is increased by spreading it to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was a glimpse of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet was he but a squire of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go then merrily to Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go then merrily to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37231]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy friendly checks forego,   Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9796</guid></item></channel></rss>