<?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[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot the ball too particularly well, and today we did shoot the ball well. We've got some guys who can shoot it, and we are going to let them shoot it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6140]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31793]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can cause damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's an interest, it would be a great feeder program for them and for us. As far as I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39497]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's an interest, it would be a great feeder program for them and for us. As far as I'm concerned, as long as they're playing something, it's a great idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This represents a milestone for medical research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This represents a milestone for medical research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with a gun with a silencer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to think impartially. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to think impartially.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First things first, second things never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950]]></link><description><![CDATA[First things first, second things never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21951</guid></item></channel></rss>