<?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 boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,   Lost all the others she lets us devote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be dissapointed! -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42540]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1983]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are an alchemist; make gold of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such as sports utility vehicles. This sector carried the manufacturing economy during the recession; now it is due to cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53610]]></link><description><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron;  'Tis heroes of the Yser,   'Tis sweethearts of glory,    'Tis lads who are unafraid!     Ferryman ho!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30390]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning a corner here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,   Time conquers all, and we must time obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can thy enemy so hurt thee by his violence, as thou dost hurt thyself if thou love him not. And let it not seem to you impossible to love him. Believe first that it can be done, and pray that the will of God may be done in you. For what good can thy neighbor's ill do to thee? If he had no ill, he would not even be thine enemy. Wish him well, then, that he may end his ill, and he will be thine enemy no longer. For it is not the human nature in him that is at enmity with thee, but his sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8442</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[There is pain in prohibition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pain in prohibition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze,  And the gay grandsire, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze,  And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,   Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21417</guid></item></channel></rss>