<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine  That cravens my weak hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine  That cravens my weak hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us make an honourable retreat. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us make an honourable retreat. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely expected more consolidation in the industry, although it is always hard to imagine a deal of this magnitude. Mirage's management has underperformed and the stock has languished recently, making it a great opportunity for MGM Grand. But this will have to be a friendly deal if it has a shot of working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob will now and then see things in a right light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob will now and then see things in a right light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53647]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13567]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks on government institutions and state land to continue, ... No one is above the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4371]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735]]></link><description><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man's asking and God's answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34600]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32663]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031</guid></item></channel></rss>