<?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[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35337]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's notexcellent, it won't be profitable or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's notexcellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in businessfor fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand   Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond    Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow     Makes wing to th' rooky wood.      Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,       While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once they got to her house, he asked to come in and use the bathroom. She allowed him to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they got to her house, he asked to come in and use the bathroom. She allowed him to come in the house and once they were in the house, he reached over and grabbed her breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62186]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,   It is the worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31788]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary for them, acute bursts of exercise, were at a slightly elevated risk of having sudden cardiac death while they exercised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:"   And thine epitaph shall be--    "He was wretched ev'n as we;"     And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19980]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317]]></link><description><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55521]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  Invite us near thy face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never less alone than when by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65052</guid></item></channel></rss>