<?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[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is well ended, if the suit be won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51217]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is well ended, if the suit be won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that they will be cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a light sigh,    That shakes from Life's fresh crown     Only a rose-leaf down.      If there were dreams to sell,       Merry and sad to tell,        And the crier rung the bell,         What would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56509]]></link><description><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a possibility that we will see some form of rationing with the conditions being as bad or worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a possibility that we will see some form of rationing with the conditions being as bad or worse than many people thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range of $7,000]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48992]]></link><description><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34399]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/416]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good as a play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, we didn't give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37105</guid></item></channel></rss>