<?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[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046]]></link><description><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do the thing it should;   And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,    'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57507]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to prepare dough ahead for pizza crusts too. Whenever I bake loaves of whole wheat, anadama, herb, or other breads . . . I just mix up a little extra, package the dough in onepound lots, and freeze it right alongside my other ingredients. ThenÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹when pizza day rolls aroundÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹all I have to do is go to the freezer and select one container of crust, one sauce, one sausage, and one cheese . . . thaw everything . . . roll out the dough and spread on the sauce, sausage, and cheese . . . bake my creation at 450?F for about 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly browned . . . and 'serve 'er up' to a hungry family of four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some concerns out in the public. I wouldn't call it an outcry, but there were some concerns expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38755]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some concerns out in the public. I wouldn't call it an outcry, but there were some concerns expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510]]></link><description><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58790]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28291]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait for that first day of practice when everybody steps on that court and we all start on that goal of getting to the Final Four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25888</guid></item></channel></rss>