<?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[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother   By yielding up thy body to my will,    Or else he must not only die the death,     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out      To ling'ring sufferance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that the desire of glory   Was the last frailty wise men put of;    Be they presidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66357]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At present, people don't trust him due to his status as a criminal suspect for a purported fake diploma, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37480]]></link><description><![CDATA[At present, people don't trust him due to his status as a criminal suspect for a purported fake diploma, so Rudolf should show that he has leadership skills and honesty to encourage people to build the province together and use natural resources for the people's benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You harp perpetually on the same string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You harp perpetually on the same string.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the life of humanity as a whole,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, when I came to training camp, I turned the page. You worry about the guys who are here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, when I came to training camp, I turned the page. You worry about the guys who are here, not the guys that aren't here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him I was going to give him a shot to go the full distance. I'm very proud of what we saw from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the growling man who lives a dog's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53609]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42602]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are no substitute for judgment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57862</guid></item></channel></rss>