<?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[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28228]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10137]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes to light,   In every cranny but the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for all practical purposes, like municipal entities unto themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of me, and I'll be there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of me, and I'll be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is consistent with the small business loan growth we continued to experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item></channel></rss>