<?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[Iron hand in a velvet glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the thought of owning their own business to the same cognitive level as other more popular career choices, ... Our children are our future, and since more than 50 percent of new jobs come from small business, it is imperative that we encourage today's children to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4305]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well languag'd Danyel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23995</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[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1039]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  The law of nature is nothing but the law of God given to mankind for the conservation of his nature and the promotion of his perfective end: a law of which a man sees a reason and feels a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity with a firm commitment to advancing human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34820]]></link><description><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have eight new positions (to fill), and we're just learning as we go. They're catching on fast. We've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have eight new positions (to fill), and we're just learning as we go. They're catching on fast. We've just got to get some more practices in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49681</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[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking.Thought rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38884]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have to work, ... It gives me something to push for and it keeps me humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Know the road ahead, ask those coming back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62837]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Know the road ahead, ask those coming back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item></channel></rss>