<?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[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,  And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour.   This life's a fort committed to my trust,    Which I must not yield up, till it be forced:     Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die,      But he that boldly bears calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal; For a limited time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round outfit. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is harder than stone? What more soft than water?  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50803]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is harder than stone? What more soft than water?  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31690]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t recall it, forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t recall it, forget it).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44381]]></link><description><![CDATA[See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65834]]></link><description><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</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[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barkis is willin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259</guid></item></channel></rss>