<?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[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</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[They like being in front. They don't like losing. Hopefully we can let them not like losing a couple more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31646]]></link><description><![CDATA[They like being in front. They don't like losing. Hopefully we can let them not like losing a couple more times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surrounded on three sides by water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surrounded on three sides by water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15512]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread.    Yet wears thy Tiber's shore     A mournful mien:--      Rome, Rome, thou art no more       As thou hast been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity, religion, disability - people of all types experience ageism, and indeed people of all ages experience ageism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,   And the moon and the stars by night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are that which activates the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are that which activates the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is trying to do that within a Catholic context.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   The man who has never had religion before, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   The man who has never had religion before, no more grows religious when he is sick, than a man who has never learned figures can count when he has need of calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577]]></link><description><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28315]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item></channel></rss>