<?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[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in January-February, no, the data doesn't support that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8634]]></link><description><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan,  They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us,   And forget us till another year be gone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the growth of the kids that do the right things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it every day in our economy. These folks are customers in our stores and employees in our workplace. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it every day in our economy. These folks are customers in our stores and employees in our workplace. We hope immigration law gets it figured out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing burneth in hell but self-will. Therefore it hath been said, Put off thine own will, and there will be no more hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9891]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets of Compaq that RLX acquired by its hiring of key Compaq personnel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8877]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just seems like the last three or four days I've been able to keep my legs under me and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35265]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just seems like the last three or four days I've been able to keep my legs under me and kind of drive the ball. It's been a long time since I've had six hits and none of them have been singles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  But there is something when man's eye appears   Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787</guid></item></channel></rss>