<?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[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested to see the positive results of the chairman's efforts in doing just that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this passing night was heard   In ancient days by emperor and clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;  Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190]]></link><description><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty from natives. Several states have gone as far as to make it illegal to use any crayfish as fishing bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--   Whisperings, wooings,    Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings     In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!      Dark the night       Yet is she bright,        For in her dark she brings the mystic star,         Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,          From some unknown afar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Immortal Love, author of this great frame,  Sprung from that beauty which can never fade;  How hath man parcel'd out thy glorious name, And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made, While mortal love doth all the title gain!  Which siding with invention, they together  Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain (Thy workmanship), and give thee share in neither. Wit fancies beauty, beauty raiseth wit:  The world is theirs; they two play out the game,  Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name Wrought our deliverance from th' infernal pit, Who sings thy praise? only a scarf or glove  Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32153]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for them. We're hoping we can be ready for when league starts again next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a sign of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41842]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41842</guid></item></channel></rss>