<?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 man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18829]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the East   And to implore your light he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a security standpoint, it is easier to secure their intellectual property and their new ideas in a campus setting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42210]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a security standpoint, it is easier to secure their intellectual property and their new ideas in a campus setting than one where all their people are spread out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect [women] is for the state to come out and say one law, one process, one secular law for all, and that is it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37709]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300 000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest,   And hung on the ether's invisible breast;    Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,--     Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29691</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[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17383]]></link><description><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character must be earned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry  The morn's approach, and greet her with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry  The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course the opening match is important but the cut will be made after three matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course the opening match is important but the cut will be made after three matches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st  Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.   Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,    Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,  Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13195]]></link><description><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13195</guid></item></channel></rss>