<?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[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the everpure roseWhether her hueis violet or roseWhether she growsin freedom or rowsever to God in waves arosethe love perfumefrom the heart of the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the eye of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923]]></link><description><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate questioning, but I love wrestling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1862]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage.Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage.Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190]]></link><description><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty from natives. Several states have gone as far as to make it illegal to use any crayfish as fishing bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66658]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of whose who took part in the ballot should be between 10 and 11 million voters, according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of whose who took part in the ballot should be between 10 and 11 million voters, according to our first estimates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end of May to bring us up to 5 percent. Then I think the Federal Reserve will step back for a while to smell the roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around campus. We had a few classes together over the summer and we just connected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25960]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item></channel></rss>