<?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[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9427]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4885]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset about today because we have to get right back at it in Two Rivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to extensive familiarity with complex coverage issues, I speak fluent Spanish, often an advantage in finding out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to extensive familiarity with complex coverage issues, I speak fluent Spanish, often an advantage in finding out what really happened. We are looking forward to handling an increasing number of claims out of the Long Beach office, particularly cargo and trucking liability claims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26849]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15633]]></link><description><![CDATA[You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart  Is true as steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. We believe that the Russian government will issue the licenses fairly quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item></channel></rss>