<?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[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33153]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with the wrong things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44152]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Kong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29223]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Kong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone,  Something uncompleted still   Waits the rising of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone,  Something uncompleted still   Waits the rising of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38067]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get comfortable out there. I told our players to deny him the ball and make him put the ball on the floor and we definitely kept him from hurting us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the mother of all wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755]]></link><description><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33563]]></link><description><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into why people give money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item></channel></rss>