<?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[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games as possible before we finish the season,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive and tanscarlet and indigos***the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55747]]></link><description><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year good record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947]]></link><description><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.   And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,    And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!     The smile of God is here."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57183]]></link><description><![CDATA[To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10822]]></link><description><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32253</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[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given up trying to reassure them. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given up trying to reassure them. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53520]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps symbolize how hard I've worked over the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough, ... I didn't enjoy it all that much just because we struggled a lot as a team, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough, ... I didn't enjoy it all that much just because we struggled a lot as a team, but those years are gonna come here and there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719</guid></item></channel></rss>