<?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[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   The rights he held of yore.    Strong and firm his grasp will be--     Keeping the ancient flag unfurled      To fling its message on the watchful world:       For king, for right, for liberty.        [Fr., Apres des siecles d'esclavage,         Le Belge sortant du tombeau,          A reconquis par son courage,           Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau,            Et ta main souveraine et fiere,             Peuple desormais indompte,              Grava sur ta vieille banniere,               Le Roi, la loi, la liberte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,   To deck the ground where thou art laid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,   Office, and custom, in all line of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32947]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cuba has health indicators that are comparable to those of developed nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is the only immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With here and there a violet bestrown,   Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave;    And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the recognition program is a valuable way of recognizing contributions from individuals whether they're teacher or administrators. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the recognition program is a valuable way of recognizing contributions from individuals whether they're teacher or administrators. It's also a way of us informing the community ... I think it's also a way of learning from our own peers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a couple of possessions away. We just couldn't get that one basket. They hit their free throws at the end, which did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all these bigger schools helps us out even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off heats through seas to seek.    I will follow thee alone,     Thou animated torrid-zone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acorns were good till bread was found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acorns were good till bread was found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item></channel></rss>