<?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[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,   Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet    Builds in the weather on the outward wall,     Even in the force and road of casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59366]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose,"   Replies a Flea upon his nose;    "Be humble, learn thyself to scan;     Know, pride was never made for man."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek and you will find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek and you will find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to bewith your love by the seahearing the gullsongsmelling the salt airfeeling the sandbeneath your toesand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to bewith your love by the seahearing the gullsongsmelling the salt airfeeling the sandbeneath your toesand the seaweedthe sea's legacy?watching the riseoer the bay of the moonand then ascentof the Sun.. oer neptune?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39936]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57517]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because it lacks the element of outrage, the modern church needs to be reminded that, if her life and institutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because it lacks the element of outrage, the modern church needs to be reminded that, if her life and institutions are being strangled by a dying culture, then she is choking on the very truths which she has herself betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws   The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.    Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;      Woods and groves are of thy dressing,       Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing,        Thus we salute thee with our early song,         And welcome thee, and wish thee long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616</guid></item></channel></rss>