<?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[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,   And though but few can serve, yet all may please;    On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,     A small unkindness is a great offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and ensure that its organizations meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33562]]></link><description><![CDATA[These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and ensure that its organizations meet the highest possible ethical standards. The Panel will continue to work with the sector and government officials to encourage implementation of its comprehensive proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41896]]></link><description><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while it's happening, I'll appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile of God is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile of God is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24375]]></link><description><![CDATA[How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20248]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   In wonder, love and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13699]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111]]></link><description><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on our marking. We can't be pushed around, we have to get that first punch in and we have to grab and hold. If they call a penalty so be it, but we have stop giving up goals on free kicks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident   With purple sanguine bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures must not be too picturesque. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures must not be too picturesque.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic structure. It was bad luck that we couldn't get him for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item></channel></rss>