<?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[I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to donothing and succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to donothing and succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is flat and was meant to be piled up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is flat and was meant to be piled up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He the sweetest of all singers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29134]]></link><description><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,  Auri ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,  Auri sacra fames?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come a long way from the beginning of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have nothing to say, say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27950]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have nothing to say, say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970]]></link><description><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All concord's born of contraries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All concord's born of contraries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12468]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</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[It is not permitted that we should know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item></channel></rss>