<?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[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18346]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a little present. I'm just glad we got the win. It's a big deal in Milton. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a little present. I'm just glad we got the win. It's a big deal in Milton. We have great fans, the people love basketball and we haven't had a team like this in nine years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,  From Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8671]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,  From Christian folds, the one selected race,   Of all professions, and in every place."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been no room for the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand was sort of a blessing in disguise, because it allowed me to play four full years of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,  Thy crimson moon and azure eye,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,  Thy crimson moon and azure eye,   Cock of the heath, so wildly shy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like the chance to do a little more performing before I become too old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like the chance to do a little more performing before I become too old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight   With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,    How grateful will appear her dawning rays!     As favours unexpected doubly please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310]]></link><description><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily news that comes in on the ongoing violence and the more-structural problems,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66657]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item></channel></rss>