<?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[A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't learn less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't learn less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795</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[I think it's all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are required to make the Internet viable in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,   Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Cato -Marcus Antonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed to maintain containment of the samples in the event that a parachute or any other entry, descent, and landing deployment or actuation fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness shows us what we are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66222]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205]]></link><description><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--      "I almost that that I could eat one raw."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059]]></link><description><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail!  See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:   They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21911</guid></item></channel></rss>