<?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[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48775]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want, the mistress of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceivedepends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think.What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determineswhat we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13728]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that, we tried to figure out a way to get more voices with us and how to be heard and get respect here in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the time they are in high school, it turns up as a serious injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help." -Robert H. Schullder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, it's too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48359]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon,  Night and all her stars;   'Twixt the east and western bars    Round they journey,     Come and go!      We go with them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mountain in LaborA mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mountain in LaborA mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse. Don't make much ado about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because I don't get the opportunities that I normally would get. But if I am in a situation that is out of my control, everyone is still going to hold me responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975</guid></item></channel></rss>