<?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[Act quickly, think slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act quickly, think slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limits are, as always, those of vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limits are, as always, those of vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear has a smile behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear has a smile behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26653]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other. [Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,  Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:   Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52947]]></link><description><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.   And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,    And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!     The smile of God is here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22624]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy   With sounds most musical, most melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125</guid></item></channel></rss>