<?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[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no more be called shoemakers.   But you and yours to the world's end    Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31977]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gondola of London [A hansom]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gondola of London [A hansom].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106]]></link><description><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all of them were different. There were 650,000 the year before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59602]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's a tremendous need in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's a tremendous need in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a Scrooge mentality, but they're putting it into a different form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35538]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole game. It changes the strategy for both teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item></channel></rss>