<?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[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound    (So should desert in arms be crowned).     The lovely Thais by his side,      Sate like a blooming Eastern bride       In flower of youth and beauty's pride.        Happy, happy, happy pair!         None but the brave,          None but the brave,           None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37398]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in the driver's seat anymore. But we can go out there and perform our best next weekend. It feels terrible, and I hope we don't feel like this again for the rest of the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you'vedetected that is threatening your current model of the world or someaspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. Thisdiscomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55210]]></link><description><![CDATA[God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22501]]></link><description><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51524]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were a developer and now we're a producer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1100]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and the reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and the reason that maybe they keep him only in loyalty oath audiences, is if he becomes angry, I do believe he turns into the Hulk. And so, they try and keep people from questioning him, because he'll just -- the shirt rips, and suddenly he has hair. So he's been my favorite, because he just goes out there to a room full of supporters and says, 'You know we're all going to die, right?' You're going to die unless I'm in charge.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62297]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39054]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him and the others it is a reward to be selected in the team and this will be a great incentive for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards for supper, and an endless host   Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,    And other such ladylike luxuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and how they live and act in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21900]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. We've been working for many years on this project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. We've been working for many years on this project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item></channel></rss>