<?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 wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3643]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,   Man, take thine old cloake about thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers;  But Error, wounded, writhes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers;  But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,   And dies among his worshippers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time for me to make a mark in this league. I'm getting chances; that is the good thing. I just need to keep doing it on a more consistent basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28747]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49321]]></link><description><![CDATA[He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the big energy companies, and the consumers get lumps of coal. There's really nothing to cheer about by anyone who gets a utility bill or has to fill up a gas tank. The energy lobbyists are the big winners, and the rest of us are left in the dust choking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to touch someone to love them, It's not in the kiss, It's in the times you don't kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hilary and Art are both pretty young, they were just promoted, and this was their big chance after waiting in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hilary and Art are both pretty young, they were just promoted, and this was their big chance after waiting in the wings. Now it's being pulled out from under them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is theability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is theability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with theleast effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourselfand the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategiesare like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correctproportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: inthis case financial success. The success strategies for managing money andbuilding wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use moneystrategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration andfailure will become a thing of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has not stabilized yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has not stabilized yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34406]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you will likely call it'being myself.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more  impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41534</guid></item></channel></rss>