<?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[Necessity never made a good bargain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been some disappointment over hedge-fund performance in general, but investors are still after that upside potential - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been some disappointment over hedge-fund performance in general, but investors are still after that upside potential - a star manager to hit a home run for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance to win every time out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of people on the field, you might as well take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32741]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball right now and that we sent a message tonight to the rest of the county: Meade is no pushover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36789]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 years old, she was working for somebody. Both she and my mother took on whatever jobs they could. Anything to have an extra dime or quarter. They made tremendous sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476]]></link><description><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might does not make right, it only makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might does not make right, it only makes history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We struggled on serving, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We struggled on serving,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso umore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect tofulfill your dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect tofulfill your dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25974]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe  Your crisped smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe  Your crisped smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief is thy great delight,   Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14218</guid></item></channel></rss>