<?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[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Costa Rica team will play very strong, very fast in the beginning of the game, try to get an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Costa Rica team will play very strong, very fast in the beginning of the game, try to get an early goal and write their ticket to Germany.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because of her attitude and her intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the departments were brought in and they were given an overview in terms of what we would need from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29472]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the departments were brought in and they were given an overview in terms of what we would need from them in order to make the process work, ... They are analyzing what their cut is in order to maintain the police and fire department levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?   What! panting recline on another than me?    Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,     From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;      What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63876]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868]]></link><description><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their earnings are in line with expectations for this quarter and the next, but there was no upside and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their earnings are in line with expectations for this quarter and the next, but there was no upside and the stock was priced for some degree of upside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings his bread with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29664]]></link><description><![CDATA[a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half our problem last season was that we leaked too many goals, so I decided we needed more solidity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half our problem last season was that we leaked too many goals, so I decided we needed more solidity and leadership at the back,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy ofwhat you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute the Moorish flute,   And nodding guards watch wearily,    On, then let me,     From prison free,      March out by moonlight cheerily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not saying he's going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying he's going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, that's going to be an albatross. Any kind of honeymoon he had is gone. It's the same old typical politician, I think, that's how a lot of that anger is going to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17153]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water, sanitation and security seem far better than those over the past few years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty in life is the choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty in life is the choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6067</guid></item></channel></rss>