<?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[been given an opportunity and a chance and I intend to make a whole-hearted effort to not go down that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36306]]></link><description><![CDATA[been given an opportunity and a chance and I intend to make a whole-hearted effort to not go down that path. It scares me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name   Robs me of that which not enriches him    And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31875]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is sky high. It was that way going into the game. He's taking this team over and he's so much more relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adams first law of survival: Get even first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as granting access that could provide least-developed countries with the incentive to make improvements in quality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as granting access that could provide least-developed countries with the incentive to make improvements in quality and marketing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really affects us is the guys in front of us. When you have people on base it causes problems for them when we come up. If nobody is on base, they can be a little more fine with their pitches and not have to worry about leaving anything out over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41181]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra money or extra things, it doesn't matter how the kids perform. I think these schools need a lot more money and a lot more effort put into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19623]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys   His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;    While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,     Displays her cleanly platter on the board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40453]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ready to move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62347]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32815]]></link><description><![CDATA[On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of the customers hit were residential. There may have been a school without power, but that is less of a problem on a Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe never pause to wonder at our feastsIf animals, like men, can possiblyhave rightsWe pray on Sundays that we may have lightTo guide our footsteps on the path wetreadWe're sick of war We do not want tofightThe thought of it now fills our hearts with dreadAnd yet we gorge ourselves upon the deadLike carrion crows we live and feed on meatRegardless of the suffering and painWe cause by doing so. If thus we treatDefenseless animals for sport or gainHow can we hope in this world to attainthe PEACE we say we are so anxious forWe pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral lawThus cruelty begets its offspring: war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40483]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge legs and peep about   To find ourselves dishonorable graves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.   My own hope is, a sun will pierce    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;     That, after Last, returns the First,      Though a wide compass round be fetched;       That what began best, can't end worst,        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33209]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him to rest tonight. We don't know how long it will be before we have him back. We didn't want to risk making it worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item></channel></rss>