<?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 low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I totally have a fear of getting cancer or a tumor, ... I always feel like I gotta get checked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I totally have a fear of getting cancer or a tumor, ... I always feel like I gotta get checked out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26764]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825]]></link><description><![CDATA[She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643]]></link><description><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, call up thy gales,   And whistle in rude fury round his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those of little faith are of little hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those of little faith are of little hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50242]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13805]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that earth which kept the world in awe   Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29042</guid></item></channel></rss>