<?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[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,   But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!    Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--     All mock him outright, by day:      But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,       The boldest will shrink away!        O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,         Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55665]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played a short while after it, but then it started swelling and it got really painful. Thankfully, our trainers recognized what it was early enough and we got him to a hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173]]></link><description><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown. (on why he doesn't use a lonely end)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28138]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16026]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ye come to weep,   Let One, most loving of you all,    Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;     He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam lit up every room she was in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sam lit up every room she was in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35405]]></link><description><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and we still missed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to do too much. You want to stay on the field, so you try to make plays happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18812]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46281]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once  Indebted and discharg'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18158]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once  Indebted and discharg'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26848]]></link><description><![CDATA[To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a huge fan of the music of Broadway, and I have an affinity for what I refer to as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a huge fan of the music of Broadway, and I have an affinity for what I refer to as the Golden Age of Broadway, ... The music makes me feel good and the music makes audiences feel good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30615</guid></item></channel></rss>