<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63650]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember Lot's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember Lot's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour   A thousand melodies unheard before!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that he is a very sincere person and that he has a passion for food and he wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that he is a very sincere person and that he has a passion for food and he wants to educate people about food. He's definitely one of a kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the promise of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the promise of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,   And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37055]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ... as well as providing training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a couple of games with her shooting free throws down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time, when we play, the other teams have better athletes, but our players understand if we go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time, when we play, the other teams have better athletes, but our players understand if we go out and play fundamental basketball we have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more self-love than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64463]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64463</guid></item></channel></rss>