<?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[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365]]></link><description><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?"  "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse.   These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651]]></link><description><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fickle and capricious woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49333]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures' sake that we believe in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is passion tamed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is passion tamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met with [Robert Furniss, director of Parking and Transportation] last week...and it's a very complicated issue. From the parking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met with [Robert Furniss, director of Parking and Transportation] last week...and it's a very complicated issue. From the parking department's perspective there aren't the resources available [to keep the service going off-campus].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled.   - William Lloyd Garrison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36925]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The markets are clearly disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The markets are clearly disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42257</guid></item></channel></rss>