<?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[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less you talk, the more you're listened to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less you talk, the more you're listened to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just like classic cars. Rich and Guy both liked classic cars, so it really goes back to them. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33305]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just like classic cars. Rich and Guy both liked classic cars, so it really goes back to them. It was a fun hobby, and it spilled over to the restaurants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears. Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall--the sap of spring; O Jesus, rise in me. My life is like a broken bowl, A broken bowl that cannot hold One drop of water for my soul Or cordial in the searching cold; Cast in the fire the perished thing; Melt and remould it, till it be A royal cup for Him, my King: O Jesus, drink of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitching staff is probably the biggest question mark for us, because we don't have anybody coming back that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitching staff is probably the biggest question mark for us, because we don't have anybody coming back that was dominant last season, that had 10 wins, they you can say, 'Hey give this guy the ball and he'll go out there and give us a win.' We don't have Brian Baker anymore. We've got some guys that are talented and we'll probably have to use more guys and develop some roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56696]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urgentur, ignotique longa    Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things affect little minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things affect little minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength -- whether their vital or their moral or even their Christian strength -- in resistance, on the enemy, then it is true that Christ's prayer would be incomprehensible. For that life is won only from death and the good only from the evil is a piece of thoroughly worldly knowledge which is not strange to the Christian. But all this has nothing to do with the temptation of which Christ speaks. It simply does not touch the reality which is meant here. The temptation of which the whole Bible speaks does not have to do with the testing of my strength, for it is of the very essence of temptation in the Bible that all my strength -- to my horror, and without my being able to do anything about it -- is turned against me; really all my powers, including my good and pious powers (the strength of my faith), fall into the hands of the enemy power and are now led into the field against me. Before there can be any testing of my powers, I have been robbed of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody;  Spurr'd boldly on, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody;  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,   Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;    Free from all meaning whether good or bad,     And in one word, heroically mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.   Some may perchance, with strange surprise,    Have blundered into Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25588]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28700]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,    And, in this upshot, purposes mistook     Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that stepped-up actions like those we take today will convince broadcasters that they cannot ignore their responsibility to serve the public interest and to avoid the broadcast of indecent material over the public airwaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48124]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33495]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot of room to improve once I get to college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31131]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that time was late and we saw that the matters will need another day in order to reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that time was late and we saw that the matters will need another day in order to reach results that please everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36219</guid></item></channel></rss>