<?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[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's basically the same, just darker.(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lack of concentration. You can?t do that. Even though you?re up 14 at the half, you have to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lack of concentration. You can?t do that. Even though you?re up 14 at the half, you have to keep building on the lead. You can?t let a team hang around. We could have been up by 22. It would have been a more comfortable lead than having to battle back and forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41183]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427]]></link><description><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's greatest challenge is to control oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's greatest challenge is to control oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item></channel></rss>