<?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[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13399]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high- quality goods, such as Isetan, are good picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they get to high school and they think they know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much relief from Asia for quite a while. I think we'll get tired of hearing about Asia before the year is over, but it's really earnings that's key. It's growth that's really the issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with their dogs. We don't allow the dogs (in the dining patio area) because we were told it was a health code violation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943]]></link><description><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65761]]></link><description><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see the biggest protest ever on Parliament Hill in June. I can see the streets packed with people as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see the biggest protest ever on Parliament Hill in June. I can see the streets packed with people as if it were Canada Day and there will be chartered planes and buses coming in. It could be something like a march against a GST increase or even a protest against another war, but people are going to be boisterous about it ... Something very good is going to come out of it for Canadians, I see them cheering June 10th or 11th with a national address on TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey coat,   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28144]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53238]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,   The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just can't let it get to you. You have to remain focused on what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38506]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38506</guid></item></channel></rss>