<?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[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow and the CrowThe Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18162]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no indication that the leak was occurring outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bed is the poor man's opera ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bed is the poor man's opera]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks,automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks,automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweeping UA was when it all clicked. We started playing together, which helped us put the puck in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweeping UA was when it all clicked. We started playing together, which helped us put the puck in the back of the net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34696]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not missing in the traditional sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go,non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulnesspractice. You might experiment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go,non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulnesspractice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity asa vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise ingiving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can giveyourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, orsome time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough toaccept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, andfrom the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[aren't critical to the strategy of the infrastructure we are building throughout North America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37781]]></link><description><![CDATA[aren't critical to the strategy of the infrastructure we are building throughout North America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372</guid></item></channel></rss>