<?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[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64767]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22970]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away;  He is gentle, he is kind--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away;  He is gentle, he is kind--   I shall never, never find    A better friend than old dog Tray!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18162]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65062]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64760]]></link><description><![CDATA[What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people's opinions in many cases, ... They are out of step politically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people's opinions in many cases, ... They are out of step politically, they are out of step in coverage. People get fed up with that. Newspapers are out of touch with mainstream Americans and now the problems are coming home to roost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like to kind of still use my brain instead of just running around with the kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45987]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36710]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaidand deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;  Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni   Majus tormentus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36307]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the county meet. Now I just want to go out there and have a good showing against the rest of the top guys in the county and just let the best man win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/76]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/76</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  You credit anything the light gives life to   Before a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item></channel></rss>