<?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[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36513]]></link><description><![CDATA[New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on the hope that the index will keep touching record highs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's character is his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's character is his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751]]></link><description><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,you see, humor is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27664]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Manny we are getting a player who has won a couple of MLS championships in San Jose and who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Manny we are getting a player who has won a couple of MLS championships in San Jose and who is a solid, proven professional,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6208]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item></channel></rss>