<?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[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' unfeeling for his own.    Yet ah! why should they know their fate,     Since sorrow never comes too late,      And happiness too swiftly flies?       Thought would destroy their paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in a peal, one and all,   For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for love but to love more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for love but to love more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37848]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what their wish list might say on it, they're going to have to be, in my mind, the impetus for fundraising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.   The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry,    The wild waves reach their hands for it.     The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,      As up and down the beach we flit,       One little sand-piper and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long-term solution is creating a more market-driven terrorism insurance market in the sale of catastrophe risk bonds with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long-term solution is creating a more market-driven terrorism insurance market in the sale of catastrophe risk bonds with some presence of the government backing up insurers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22970]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58479]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45942]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said;  One half will never be believed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said;  One half will never be believed,   The other never read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48786]]></link><description><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through."  I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along:   But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong.    One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away,     And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say      Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do,       You get somebody else or wait till I get through."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item></channel></rss>