<?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 most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to grow organically, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to grow organically,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47070]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,   And on it put a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' instead of Bill Clinton. 'Christine' is just more formal. She says that's what her mother called her when she got in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round outfit. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known for a very long time that I was being downloaded more than Cindy Margolis. I got fed up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known for a very long time that I was being downloaded more than Cindy Margolis. I got fed up, and I finally had time to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club, and we are looking forward to the next three years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club, and we are looking forward to the next three years with our organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27947]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19465]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50074]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65685</guid></item></channel></rss>