<?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[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the lea   That's the way for Billy and me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have listened keenly to our customers and refined the cars to boost our competitiveness on both sides of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have listened keenly to our customers and refined the cars to boost our competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic. We already have a winning concept, so the aim was fine-tuning rather than making major changes. More sophisticated lines and materials and a better driving experience without compromising on demands concerning safety and power trains with good environmental properties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49538]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are a lot of examples that say, 'Better to leave well alone and do what you can as a reporter.' You do get into situations where you think, 'What should I do? Shouldn't I intervene? Shouldn't I do something?' I think if you get to that point you have to make a decision. I've said to people, if you feel it's wrong just being a reporter and you can't do enough, well it's time to become an aid worker and train to be someone who really knows what to do. No good standing around snapping a notebook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning;  The night has no eve,   And the day has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning;  The night has no eve,   And the day has no morning;    Cold winter gives warning!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33470]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not in combat the last time I checked. We've got some time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not in combat the last time I checked. We've got some time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really think being at home helped. This is a big part of the season, with a lot of home games coming up. It feels good to come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars of old,   Ring in the thousand years of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</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[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can say,   Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item></channel></rss>