<?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[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if our stock be very small,    'Tis prudent to enjoy it all,     Nor lose the present hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in the NHL] it seems like some guys don't expect it sometimes, so I get those shots in when I can. It differs from team to team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cusioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44628]]></link><description><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4339]]></link><description><![CDATA[O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,  Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that and then all of a sudden you don't have him, it means you have to adjust. We're having trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951]]></link><description><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milke saies to wine, welcome friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Milke saies to wine, welcome friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented by the Web. As this occurs, sales opportunities will be squandered. But more importantly, customer relationships will be lost to more aggressive firms with highly developed Internet marketing capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for that. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34659]]></link><description><![CDATA[In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for that. It had the player's mother's name, high school, where they used to live when they were 3 years old. Every detail is in there. They put so much time in, and we didn't even look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55048]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item></channel></rss>