<?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[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;   The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown:    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,     Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it was really like at Ground Zero from the perspective of the rescue and recovery workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It is a power league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48992]]></link><description><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life there is danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Nokia did in the end was to bypass RIM and go straight to NTP. It's really unfortunate for RIM ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30415]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Nokia did in the end was to bypass RIM and go straight to NTP. It's really unfortunate for RIM to still be dealing with the same issues, which haven't been resolved. It's definitely adversely impacting their business model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31801]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd play that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297]]></link><description><![CDATA[He throws 10 pitches (during the game), and then he's in the conditioning room for an hour and he's just rolling in to the clubhouse when the game is over. He's put in that much work to maintain his body. He doesn't take his body for granted. That's why he's so good. That's why he's had longevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pump you up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pump you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108]]></link><description><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His development has come along real well. He's made good strides defensively. His hitting, though, is what really has impressed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28633]]></link><description><![CDATA[His development has come along real well. He's made good strides defensively. His hitting, though, is what really has impressed us. It's good enough to where we feel he'll go to Triple-A and play a big role there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item></channel></rss>