<?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 all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14704]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64941]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380]]></link><description><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more than enough reason to believe [Jackson] is on the precipice of bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more than enough reason to believe [Jackson] is on the precipice of bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were lots of good times in all levels of swimming. We're down to the last month of the season, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39252]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were lots of good times in all levels of swimming. We're down to the last month of the season, hopefully, we can keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53920]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53920</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the pathto its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and he knows what he is doing and he pitched out of some jams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16166]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997]]></link><description><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997</guid></item></channel></rss>