<?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[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:  Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39049]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending on voice calls is falling even without a price war, so they don't want to cut prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65407]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34811]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun,   Or how fur we've gone in the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45293]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item></channel></rss>