<?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[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[I heard the little bird say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the little bird say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17888]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in the last repeating troublesome,   Being urged at a time unreasonable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455]]></link><description><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28403]]></link><description><![CDATA[On behalf of all of those who have a special place in their hearts for Vail Mountain, I would like to thank and congratulate the many law enforcement bodies who worked so hard over such a long period of time to find the individuals who are allegedly responsible for the shocking Vail arson in 1998.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting to see them get to the semifinals and step it up. We really represented. The whole town of Greeley just did awesome. There were a lot of tough teams here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783</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[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43949]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;         Last, and as much containing as all these,          Her brother is in secret come from France,           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,               Will nothing stick our person to arraign                In ear and ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, And turn again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, And turn again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55953]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His body just can't take it any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42090]]></link><description><![CDATA[His body just can't take it any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it gives the place a more updated look. It's very fresh looking and seems to be brighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of disorders) in these much younger children, aged 2-5, are not very different from what they will be in children of 9 or 14.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28462</guid></item></channel></rss>