<?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[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the skies,   To him are open paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4860]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more brave To live, than to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no reservations about the strength of this lineup and going out together. We're a very loyal culture. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no reservations about the strength of this lineup and going out together. We're a very loyal culture. We're loyal to products and to artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star   Upon her violet crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992]]></link><description><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992</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[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7759]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46625]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by German protestant theology, has rushed to abandon positions before they were attacked, and to demythologize the Gospel message when there was no clear evidence that intelligent minds outside the Church were any more frightened by her mystery than by her morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618]]></link><description><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;   Glittering in golden coats like images;    As full of spirit as the month of May     And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;      Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item></channel></rss>