<?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[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles  Rejected several suitors, just to learn   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles  Rejected several suitors, just to learn   How to accept a better in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31976]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally with the military action, by the alliance, cooperation and gathering of all leaders of opinion and influence in the Iraqi arena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the Proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and over-spreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips I rein;    For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to other teams because we've already won the race, so we know basically how to do it. However, there's a new challenge, a new year, a lot more drivers and a lot more teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. We're hoping after the first month, this all kind of calms down. I'm sure it will be a good program eventually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freshman coming up may be the best group as a whole that we have had in a long time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freshman coming up may be the best group as a whole that we have had in a long time. I think that the future is bright for Stone football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any force to support them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists will take every opportunity to exploit and profit from those who have experienced great loss,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55639]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;  For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,  Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow,  And soonest our best men with thee do go,  Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,  And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well,  And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally,  And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30189]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most senseless and fit man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most senseless and fit man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8877]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th grade next year when she goes back home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our construction teams and customer service representatives are among the best in the business. Our goal has always been to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our construction teams and customer service representatives are among the best in the business. Our goal has always been to deliver a zero-defect home, withstanding the test of time from the day folks move in and far into the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64700</guid></item></channel></rss>