<?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[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry;All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, and 'twas most meet,   That he should be no delver in earth's clod,    Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet     To stand before his God:      O blest word--Evermore!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes and past,   On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame,    And annals graved in characters of flame.     [It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte,      Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai       Funesta dote d'infiniti guai        Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33875]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something big. I just felt I had to go upper-body and throw him ... This is awesome to win three [WPIAL team titles]. It's just like winning the other two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9873]]></link><description><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1286]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly hung   Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51845]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is unearned emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is unearned emotion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Expos have always been a perfect fit for him. In Montreal he can walk down a street or take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Expos have always been a perfect fit for him. In Montreal he can walk down a street or take a subway and no one will bother him, and he likes that. But who knows about next year? Everyone is too focused on what's going on with the rest of this season to think about what's going to happen after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profit news continues to be good, and we are seeing some relief from the profit taking of the last few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profit news continues to be good, and we are seeing some relief from the profit taking of the last few weeks. But there is an ongoing tug-of-war between 'we've come too far too fast,' and 'the economic recovery is strong' and you're seeing that played out on a day-to-day basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal; For a limited time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23068]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item></channel></rss>