<?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[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is thehighest flight of human wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is thehighest flight of human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021]]></link><description><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959]]></link><description><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3885]]></link><description><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency and better performances on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11671]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63603]]></link><description><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65670]]></link><description><![CDATA[My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099]]></link><description><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431]]></link><description><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36666]]></link><description><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be united--united--united. [Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347</guid></item></channel></rss>