<?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[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the major factors affecting pork producer profitability is the policy of the government as it impacts a producer's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35426]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the major factors affecting pork producer profitability is the policy of the government as it impacts a producer's cost of doing business and their ability to effectively market their products. This award is a way for us to show our appreciation for the continued support that these legislators have demonstrated to Illinois pork producers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the other morning, after I took a hot shower and brushed my teeth, we think of these as simple things, but for these people, these things are a luxury. This is a way that everyone can get involved and help their fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more confidence in ourselves. We have seen that hard work pays off. We're not overconfident. Just confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more confidence in ourselves. We have seen that hard work pays off. We're not overconfident. Just confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy friendly checks forego,   Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to his vision. The foundation of this team happened through Bob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The Vine, boys, the Vine!    The mother of the mighty Wine,     A roamer is she      O'er wall and tree       And sometimes very good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that the public health authorities want the people in Cuba to be healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An RRSP loan is a really good idea. It allows for flexibility, forced savings and tax-deferred growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40170]]></link><description><![CDATA[An RRSP loan is a really good idea. It allows for flexibility, forced savings and tax-deferred growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in his den. A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from his slumbers. He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse. A Fox seeing him said: A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse. 'Tis not the Mouse I fear, said the Lion; I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding. Little liberties are great offenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, and then not often near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted by their fathers, even though they have not quite achieved what their fathers intended. Such children ought we to be, firmly trusting that our services will be approved by our most merciful Father, however small, rude, and imperfect these may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047</guid></item></channel></rss>