<?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[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40233]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,    And no dear mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4209]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really not the bling king, ... I'm the No. 1 supplier and designer for bling kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really not the bling king, ... I'm the No. 1 supplier and designer for bling kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris kept taking him down, but he got caught a few times. They're both really good wrestlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The markets are clearly disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The markets are clearly disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form was good in a particular age any proof that it is also good for another age. The history of the organization of Christianity has been in reality the history of successive readjustments of form to altered circumstances. Its power of readjustment has been at once a mark of its divinity and a secret of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goddess was discovered by her gait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goddess was discovered by her gait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What it will come down to, we hope, is that there will be other opportunities and other choices in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27967]]></link><description><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there really isn't any threat of inflation out there. Remember all those terrible surprises we used to get on Fridays? It's about time the bond market got a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3787</guid></item></channel></rss>