<?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[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose,"   Replies a Flea upon his nose;    "Be humble, learn thyself to scan;     Know, pride was never made for man."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229]]></link><description><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549</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[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windy satisfaction of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windy satisfaction of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just amazing. There is such a vast network of golf-related business at the show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just amazing. There is such a vast network of golf-related business at the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33049]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had the type of personality anyone could fall in love with. Nothing could ever get her down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.(7:3).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain   Make Good    Together there we can begin again     In babyhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. .. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If itdoesn't, it is of no use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945</guid></item></channel></rss>