<?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[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others. [Lat., Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens.  Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4281]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</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[If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42107]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30380]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10969]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16567]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would imagine that most people who read newspapers and look at Web sites are aware of headlines being made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would imagine that most people who read newspapers and look at Web sites are aware of headlines being made on substantially higher metal costs. If retailer costs go up, eventually the consumer pays for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a poor fourth quarter on the offensive end, we still had a chance in the final seconds, but missed free throws and other opportunities hurt us. It was disappointing because this was a game we could have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no abiding success without commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no abiding success without commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service ofothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service ofothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576</guid></item></channel></rss>