<?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[Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,   Half teasing and half tender, to repeat    Her song of "May."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, have in some measure made me well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market had already factored in the pretty weak results in beef, but Pilgrim's Pride earnings highlighted the difficult trends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market had already factored in the pretty weak results in beef, but Pilgrim's Pride earnings highlighted the difficult trends in poultry. We anticipate poultry pricing will be pressured through at least spring, barring any notable AI outbreaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66080]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,   But I love him best of all.    For his song is all the joy of life,     And we in the mad spring weather,      We two have listened till he sang       Our hearts and lips together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not marveled at the might of kings  When voyaging down the river of dead years?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not marveled at the might of kings  When voyaging down the river of dead years?  What deeds of death to still an hour of fears, What waste of wealth to gild a moth's frail wings!  A Caesar to the breeze his banner flings,  An Alexander with his bloody spears,  A Herod heedless of his people's tears!  And Rome in ruin while Nero laughs and sings:  Ye actors of a drama, cruel and cold,  Your names are by-words in Love's temple now,  Your pomp and glory but a winding-sheet;  Then Christ came scorning regal power and gold  To wear warm blood-drops on a willing brow,  And we, in love, forever kiss His feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact of the bee   Upon the blossom; in the tree    I am the sap--that shall reveal     The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes      Up from the darkness through its roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40668]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can you do? You have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place of Islam in public life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64695</guid></item></channel></rss>