<?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[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on playing conventional volleyball and they play crazy volleyball. It frustrates the fool out of you. But we worked hard, persevering, passing and not giving up even though they dug us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to claw our way up from the rear of the pack, so it's a very exciting feeling for us to come in and be as confident as we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17543]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21137]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Access to cash is paramount now. It's absolutely critical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Access to cash is paramount now. It's absolutely critical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58108]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had to pick the top five courses of my entire experience, two of them were online. I know that with the right instructor and set-up, learning online can be just as fulfilling, if not more so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60052]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that there is none else that He cares for, is one of the lies of the enemy. What father is not pleased with the first tottering attempt of his little one to walk? What father would be satisfied with anything but the manly step of the full-grown son?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50639]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy continue, eventually they (Japan) will depart from the zero interest rate policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29211]]></link><description><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59820]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59820</guid></item></channel></rss>