<?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[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they have some very difficult challenges over the next three years. The silver lining is if they continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they have some very difficult challenges over the next three years. The silver lining is if they continue to reduce costs and strive for flexible manufacturing, they can see a return to profits even without the sales levels of 2000. But the Asian brands and European brands aren't sitting still either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one of only a couple of major airlines that posted a significant adjusted profit for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover in the summer sky   Are all asleep to-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30328]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34128]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and His Angels thither; and when they are there, I neglect God and His Angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22862]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49038]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and night   Are melted in her depth of blue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And in the violet-embroidered vale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13440</guid></item></channel></rss>