<?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[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We just didn't come to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation. We believe that Iran and Russia should find a way out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35733]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation. We believe that Iran and Russia should find a way out of this jointly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25825]]></link><description><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars that can count their worth;   But my true love is grown to such excess    I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the dusk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the city but the people? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the city but the people?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil prices or the strengthening in other world stock markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avian influenza has definitely impacted the demand for poultry in the international market and caused poultry prices to weaken, particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avian influenza has definitely impacted the demand for poultry in the international market and caused poultry prices to weaken, particularly leg quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is too much to wish on anybody, but it's true that our dot-com yuppies think a depression is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62609]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is too much to wish on anybody, but it's true that our dot-com yuppies think a depression is just a pothole in the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that speaks much, is much mistaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe,  At last the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11141]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe,  At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190]]></link><description><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4629]]></link><description><![CDATA[One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item></channel></rss>