<?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[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53360]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12172]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foot in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18202]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foot in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do it ourselves . . . We found a way to be really happy and this way we're able to do it on our own . . . it's exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10805]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61799]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. •Greg Anderson   A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. •Jean De La Bruyère   Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. •Robert Dato  A wish is a desire without an attempt. •Farmer Digest  Oh, the secret life of man and woman -- dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. •Zelda Fitzgerald  Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. •Jean Toomer  Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. •Anonymous  Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. •St. Augustine   When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. •Elizabeth Bowen   Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. •Goethe   Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106]]></link><description><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all of them were different. There were 650,000 the year before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,   The might--the majesty of Loveliness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, physical projects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night...What of fame?Everyone knows your face, the world screams your nameAnd never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night...What of fame?Everyone knows your face, the world screams your nameAnd never again, are you alone..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item></channel></rss>