<?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[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11553]]></link><description><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain   Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37039]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8894]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing, and science another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing, and science another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36000]]></link><description><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity trip is a big accomplishment in our program. To be selected on the state team is a big deal. These kids are the best and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end is here, but this is what we're here for -- the next eight games. We're pumping ourselves up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end is here, but this is what we're here for -- the next eight games. We're pumping ourselves up, and the vibe on the team is really changing. Hopefully that changes our performances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35933</guid></item></channel></rss>