<?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[You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53626]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60123]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6123]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35013]]></link><description><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18382]]></link><description><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;   May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was always a lover of soft-winged things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was always a lover of soft-winged things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world's a bubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62192]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world's a bubble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64539]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were about six inches from being up 14-7 on a fade route. We were one camera angle away from having the ball on the half-yard line. We could have easily scored 28-21 points in that game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42448]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry and if you don't have a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic you might as well not show up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item></channel></rss>