<?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[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks on,   And turns no more his head;    Because he knows a frightful fiend     Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been increasingly difficult to buy even a 30-acre piece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been increasingly difficult to buy even a 30-acre piece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's upsetting (we lost) but it's great to be a part of a team that never gives up. Every team's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's upsetting (we lost) but it's great to be a part of a team that never gives up. Every team's goal is to make it to the final day. We won that first game and then the second and it was like, 'Oh, wow.' It's great to have come so far, especially since not many people had high expectations for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,  To make thyself learneder, wiser, better.   [Fr., Jusqu'au cercuil (mon fils) vueilles apprendre,    Et tien perdu le jour qui s'est passe,     Si tu n'y as quelque chose ammasse,      Pour plus scavant et plus sage te rendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride:  The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums   Are drooping heavy-eyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride:  The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums   Are drooping heavy-eyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be known more for my work than for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body;  If nae-body cares for me,   I'll care for nae-body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56037]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that I think are going to be around for the long term, leaders in the up cycle, ... Companies that the institutional investor can get in and out of quickly and that tends to draw a larger portion of the money when we have these volatile times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item></channel></rss>