<?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[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really had to make believers out of MPS to let them know that we're serious about what we've committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really had to make believers out of MPS to let them know that we're serious about what we've committed to,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms   And the sky is held in the water.    What is water,     That pours silver,      And can hold the sky?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38162]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue to get nominated, ... They never can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   Your transporting chords ring out.    Every leaf in every nook,     Every wave in every brook,      Chanting with a solemn voice       Minds us of our better choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array,   Presiding spirit here to-day,    Dost lead the revels of the May;     And this is thy dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your coats,   I rede you tent it:    A chield's amang you takin notes,     And, faith, he'll prent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any trainer or physician that deals with football players, and in particular offensive linemen and to an extent defensive linemen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any trainer or physician that deals with football players, and in particular offensive linemen and to an extent defensive linemen knows that mass is good,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know no evil will suspect none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11236]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know no evil will suspect none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20724]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50653]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine   Myriads, though bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684</guid></item></channel></rss>