<?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[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55785]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10479]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32301]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. Who's he?' Everybody has their day in the sun, and he had his today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47870]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as a carriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as a carriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the while the company's done a good job of maintaining strong gross margins in a tough reimbursement market like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the while the company's done a good job of maintaining strong gross margins in a tough reimbursement market like the U.S.. That means they're controlling costs well on the manufacturing side, which isn't an easy thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1235</guid></item></channel></rss>