<?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[Let's meet and either do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's meet and either do or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     Love stays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour   A thousand melodies unheard before!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55971]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26671]]></link><description><![CDATA[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37855]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â± it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27569]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officials offered to take four percentage points off that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officials offered to take four percentage points off that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43655]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53470]]></link><description><![CDATA[One religion is as true as another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39117]]></link><description><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less than two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less than two years is a testament to our design and manufacturing expertise and the trust our customers place in us to consistently deliver high quality, value-added products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61821]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2715]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2715</guid></item></channel></rss>