<?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[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but there are still some areas where we don't have agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34399]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet .. frog's legs ...the frogs now had no legs chicken's thighs... the chickens now had no thighs lamb's ribs .. the lamb now had no ribs turkey's breasts.. the turkey's chest was carved sheep's eyes which watched the devourers calf brains which contained Mad Cow and God sent angels to wipe all violence from the earth from this day forth © S N Shriver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We secure to two trees in case one of them breaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We secure to two trees in case one of them breaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34481</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[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who stops being better stops being good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2282]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who stops being better stops being good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19365]]></link><description><![CDATA[History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9839]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34396]]></link><description><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but any spark can ignite a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45259]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42159]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42159</guid></item></channel></rss>