<?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[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30860]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has always been a great liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4354]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the far bridgemany a spent cartridgeCheney killed 81 birds that daybut in the pear treesurvived ......the partridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse relies not solely on one hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50856]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse relies not solely on one hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062]]></link><description><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise counsell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato perit sanguine Cappadocis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is part of how we play. We play in streaks and their goalie did a real good job in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30565]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is part of how we play. We play in streaks and their goalie did a real good job in the second quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66089]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And I will look on both indifferently;   For let the gods so speed me as I love    The name of honor more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of college baseball, and important for their respective universities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific war and occupation by America. The world is beginning to speak with one voice. We want that democracy in Iraq to succeed, and we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power and that power is America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49817</guid></item></channel></rss>