<?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[Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a very quite, hard worker. Coming into this year from last year, I see 10 times the wrestler. This year he won't be denied. He's just awesome. He is only a sophomore, too. Next year, people better watch out in that heavy weight division.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64714]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,   By--sending the wine round too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Their own desire for the revelation of the glory of Jesus in the salvation of men went out towards those whom they met, and was immediately answered by the recognition of the need of those whom they met for Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58045]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not know.  (Berowne:) Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?   (King:) Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like playing on the road when everyone is against you. It makes you feel good, when you win, to see all those hurt faces in the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32345]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I think he liked being punched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were pounding on me, but that's nothing new. I've come to expect it every game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39211]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were pounding on me, but that's nothing new. I've come to expect it every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you miss the old times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51510]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item></channel></rss>