<?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[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to be brave -- another to be stupid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on;  The mountain summit sparkles   In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on;  The mountain summit sparkles   In the light of the setting sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some real good looks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some real good looks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, and do thou likewise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, and do thou likewise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young players in the league and he's a guy to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16457]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his knee. There was no pain but we thought we'd have it scanned and it came back with something to do with the ligament pulling away from the hamstring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we were babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus with the gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679</guid></item></channel></rss>