<?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[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28947]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I do not think it is fatal, ... but he is going to have to take some drastic action to realize that politics is the art of compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul meets soul on lovers lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soul meets soul on lovers lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, you're not going to make new highs in the market as long as we have uncertainty in terms of interest rates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, I think he's loaded with love. This is a blustering kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He tells the truth and that's why I love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If we ever are to attain to true Divine Peace, and be completely united ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If we ever are to attain to true Divine Peace, and be completely united to God, all that is not absolutely necessary, either bodily or spiritually, must be cast off; everything that could interpose itself to an unlawful extent between us and Him, and lead us astray: for He alone will be Lord in our hearts, and none other; for Divine Love can admit of no rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam  Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her (Barbee) is that I know it will be emotional, but she needs to keep playing the way she has and not let it consume her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was definitely a good result because it was a really tough test today, where only those riders who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40098]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was definitely a good result because it was a really tough test today, where only those riders who are in shape had any chance of doing well,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore, now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item></channel></rss>