<?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[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44088]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We have a very talented younger group. This first year AA will be a challenge for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32290]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to do, because many, many offers are fraught with upfront fees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37478]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28545]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of justice is eternal publicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of justice is eternal publicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is no less real because it is of degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66613]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I picked up the 'HTML Manual of Style,' and for inspiration I picked up Negroponte's 'Being Digital,' got on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I picked up the 'HTML Manual of Style,' and for inspiration I picked up Negroponte's 'Being Digital,' got on a plane, flew to the Bahamas and sat on a beach and read these books, ... And a week later, came home and started building the Web site myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His prostate cancer is no issue, it is completely controlled, ... There is no need to expect the imminent demise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28255]]></link><description><![CDATA[His prostate cancer is no issue, it is completely controlled, ... There is no need to expect the imminent demise of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan. He isn't going anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28255</guid></item></channel></rss>