<?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[Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29718]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for you. The loss and anguish you caused this community will never be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44140]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a bunch of guys climbing along some jungle gym and going through tunnels and shooting their guns in the air, ... These are people who are thinking through problems in how to cause destruction, for a well-thought-through political strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debters are lyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debters are lyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love spends his all, and still hath store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love spends his all, and still hath store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9805]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts   Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;    Himself his own dungeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er wail their present woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends stab you in the front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65656]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends stab you in the front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the moredreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34782]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a catalog of the avarice of central committee members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, and at the last one in July we had 99. It's amazing. This year we are hoping to have between 75-80 donations because it's the hardest time for the people who need blood to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47043]]></link><description><![CDATA[True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47043</guid></item></channel></rss>