<?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[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43435]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, and he made   Us so that we could hear and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57167]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give  No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The potential for local search and local advertising comes into play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The potential for local search and local advertising comes into play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like t' vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29126]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14377]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is a powerful tool in bringing people together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is a powerful tool in bringing people together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with these kitties is that they had been in cages for so long, we recommended the foster person to let them run and play. Both of the cats ran for two days straight. They were so active; they were a ball of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14789]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363</guid></item></channel></rss>