<?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[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learning curve compared to last year, where we installed a new system and a new defense in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learning curve compared to last year, where we installed a new system and a new defense in the first three weeks, isn't as steep this season. Now that we've had a year to work with the kids, I think we can build on our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24682]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man.  If man abandons, God himself takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man.  If man abandons, God himself takes them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23946]]></link><description><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,   Not practise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39783]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13203]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58977]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;   Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30097]]></link><description><![CDATA[ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything is made here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38157]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14402]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just can't work that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just can't work that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65993</guid></item></channel></rss>