<?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[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 9/11, nothing has been done to secure our borders and do the job the Congress won't do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should change your name. That's a silly stance to take, because you're just going to disappoint people. Your early stuff is what people really attached themselves to. There aren't any songs that we won't play because we don't like them and don't think they're good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,   See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61645]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34081]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important special teams can be in every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54973]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29696]]></link><description><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a great thing. It's going to raise a lot of money. It's going to raise a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a great thing. It's going to raise a lot of money. It's going to raise a lot of awareness about how badly help is needed. And all in all it's gonna be a great show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65144]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36675]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39538]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37426]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10531</guid></item></channel></rss>