<?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[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, definitely. We'll have to see what the defense files, but we plan to bring it back to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, definitely. We'll have to see what the defense files, but we plan to bring it back to trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we apples swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2950]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we apples swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9871]]></link><description><![CDATA[No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53459]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44883]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the residents thought because they were going south, the climate was going to be a lot warmer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the residents thought because they were going south, the climate was going to be a lot warmer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la Grande-Bretagne.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item></channel></rss>