<?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[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realists do not fear the results of their study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realists do not fear the results of their study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune and love favor the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favor the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness knew?   Life to destroy for fear to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53639]]></link><description><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36662]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil orimperfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise with a holiday bonus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is merely gossip ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is merely gossip]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few stations are going to be out for a few hours, maybe a day, but they will get their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few stations are going to be out for a few hours, maybe a day, but they will get their deliveries and there'll plenty of gas for motorists in our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34055]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in here. We don't want to become a casino.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a bondsman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51400]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a bondsman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65409</guid></item></channel></rss>