<?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[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12673]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two or three games. They couldn't get that game out of their system, it was such a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every little thing counts in a crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every little thing counts in a crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,   Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies that men do leave   Are hated most of those they did deceive,    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,     Of all be hated, but the most of me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write what should not be forgotten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19331]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38435]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313</guid></item></channel></rss>