<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31708]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according to plan. We're aiming to be somewhere in the top six and we're on target. We had a small spin at a junction on the first stage that gave away a few seconds but apart from that we've had no issues. The roads are in good condition, there's a good solid base and I'm enjoying my driving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40453]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ready to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25948]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2172]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64893]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking.Thought rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/960]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not really going to throw much new stuff at you on a Wednesday but there's still some stuff we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32811]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not really going to throw much new stuff at you on a Wednesday but there's still some stuff we've got to change up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46025]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support were involved and the police were wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item></channel></rss>