<?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[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his barn door,   That luck might down upon him pour;    That every blessing known in life     Might crown his homestead and his wife,      And never any kind of harm       Descend upon his growing farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905]]></link><description><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail   Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.] We are very appreciative of this opportunity to hold the tobacco industry to account for its destructive products, ... That it was unanimous indicates the power of this ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger dollar-buying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much harder and flatter and has a big serve, but he likes to play at the baseline. Kevin has the more all-around game and likes to go to the net, but he's not nearly as powerful as Kyle. They don't look like they started at the same academy, which in a sense is good. Kids don't all need to be taught the same way because they have different strengths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,   Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.    It is most just to throw that on the ground,     Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were the wags    Who tipped these funny tags     And these toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item></channel></rss>