<?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[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,   Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good cloth give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good cloth give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a post-holiday boost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to get them ready to play in those pressure situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for less than $100.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9308]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9336]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout my discussions I was confident that a way through the problems could be found and that a business case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout my discussions I was confident that a way through the problems could be found and that a business case could be made. I'll continue to work with the new company to make sure the project remains viable and has a sustainable future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13162]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is a good musician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be - Please God -- where there is no more sea    Nor barren wilderness. Heaven overarches you and me,   And all earth's gardens and her braves.  Look up with me, until we see  The day break and the shadows flee.  What though to-night wrecks you and me,     If so to-morrow saves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7936</guid></item></channel></rss>