<?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[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51046]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your future...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No new troops were added, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34271]]></link><description><![CDATA[No new troops were added,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Europeans need to show real flexibility on market access, ... We came here for a discussion basically on agriculture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Europeans need to show real flexibility on market access, ... We came here for a discussion basically on agriculture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gave sellers a chance to lighten up a bit, ... On balance, this just appears to be investors taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gave sellers a chance to lighten up a bit, ... On balance, this just appears to be investors taking a breather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33277]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his broken lifeless body as their trophy, parading friends through the woods to look at it. They listened as he cried out for help and begged him to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really isno other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is justanother present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, youcannot live it until it does appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us it's about family. It affects my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like Hazel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like Hazel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65359]]></link><description><![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57505]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about  The other four in wondrous motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29959]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.  Sweet boy, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.  Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved:   So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love.    [Lat., Lumine Acon dextre,--capta est Leonilla sinistre,     Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees:      Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori,       Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19631]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church is committed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church is committed by its Founder to reach out in love to every movement that upbuilds character and integrity in men, and every gesture that aims to resolve the differences that estrange human beings from each other. The Gospel in its free course goes hand-in-hand with the cup of cold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32594]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone;    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,     Snow on snow,      In the bleak midwinter,       Long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item></channel></rss>