<?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 only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to Ronald Reagan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11406]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations. When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices in the former two are considerably cheaper than their Alberta counterparts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was waiting for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was waiting for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</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[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red tape, and we believe it will greatly up the approval process on franchise loans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542</guid></item></channel></rss>