<?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[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile   That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the same intent in terms of a general basis, but when you look at the very top box of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31178]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the same intent in terms of a general basis, but when you look at the very top box of those who are 'very likely' to buy a home, that's where you're seeing the decrease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20341]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is far more opportunity than there is ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45090]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is far more opportunity than there is ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now, ... Those who leave the county should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now, ... Those who leave the county should go north and east, such as to Hattiesburg, Laurel or Meridian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31657]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this win will prove its value down the stretch. When you see what [other results] happened in the conference tonight, I think these will turn out to be three big points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14135]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman's home is his castle ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47777]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman's home is his castle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for today for tomorrow never comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just moved a few months ago, so I wasn't thinking he'd propose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39361</guid></item></channel></rss>