<?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[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have to be watchful of the potential harm their negligence can do to the civilians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43839]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thick on the woodland floor Gay company shall be,  Primrose and Hyacinth   And frail Anemone,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thick on the woodland floor Gay company shall be,  Primrose and Hyacinth   And frail Anemone,    Perennial Strawberry-bloom,     Woodsorrel's pencilled veil,      Dishevel'd Willow-weed       And Orchis purple and pale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768]]></link><description><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in people now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prediction is difficult, especially about the future..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1206]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334]]></link><description><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were stepping out of the mosque and suddenly a big blast shook the ground, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were stepping out of the mosque and suddenly a big blast shook the ground,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good as a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs do not make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs do not make a right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13274]]></link><description><![CDATA[What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15487]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior year we'd be good. We're trying to do more than make the playoffs. That was our expectations at the beginning of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37098]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this time, she said, 'I really think you should write this book, whether he wants you to or not.' To me, this was amazing. And she was right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37098</guid></item></channel></rss>