<?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[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave,  Ye are brothers! ye are men!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave,  Ye are brothers! ye are men!   And we conquer but to save;    So peace instead of death let us bring;     But yield, proud foe, let us bring;      With the crews, at England's feet,       And make submission meet        To our King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64443]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That what will come, and must come, shall come well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17076]]></link><description><![CDATA[That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</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[This is tougher than any loss that we've had this year. It doesn't feel good to lose that streak. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34768]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is tougher than any loss that we've had this year. It doesn't feel good to lose that streak. We know we are better than that. We just didn't bring it today for some reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry the freight   Of the monstrous weight    Of all of his qualities, good and great.     And tho' one view is as good as another      Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this is not illegal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was amazing. That showed us that we can win if we play as a team, no matter who's out there on the court. We've really switched people around everybody plays everywhere at different times. We've just been able to really pull together as a team because we have a common goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being fed up with his hometown and his local 7-11.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item></channel></rss>