<?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['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25380]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56068]]></link><description><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31233]]></link><description><![CDATA[That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62322]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16059]]></link><description><![CDATA["Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail!  See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:   They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43090]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was time for a change in the Macoupin County Sheriff's Department and a new way of doing business. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33744]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was time for a change in the Macoupin County Sheriff's Department and a new way of doing business. I have begun that change and I bring with me two decades of law enforcement experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up because insurers' investment returns had been decreasing, and auto and property loss had increased. But this is going to accelerate that process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beate the dog before the Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beate the dog before the Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Goat and the GoatherdA goatherd had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied, Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28767]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life around him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:   Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:    Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept has been around for a long time, but it's just crept its way into mainstream employment benefits in the last few decades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new under the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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