<?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[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   Myself--und Gott.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've become a very sought-after partner for developing Broadway musicals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that will perk up her portfolio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,   The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,   And partings yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/they will be drawn to your door./ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will beechoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected inyour eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause,  True to the death, but not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause,  True to the death, but not to be his slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen onlyto the inner voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tone of the market was already negative, and that was reinforced today by the news from Brazil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tone of the market was already negative, and that was reinforced today by the news from Brazil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10801</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[It always seems impossible until it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening year,   I listen, and it cheers me long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality provokes originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality provokes originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty begets license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty begets license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35728</guid></item></channel></rss>