<?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[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119]]></link><description><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. [Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,  Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,   Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love begins when infatuation ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6026]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture. -Suzuki Roshi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture. -Suzuki Roshi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we can, as a nation, step into the bright light of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65476]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at the turning o' the tide. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it would deter sales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37239]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it would deter sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400]]></link><description><![CDATA[History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a free country. You can say anything you want. True baseball fans don't say stuff like that. What can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a free country. You can say anything you want. True baseball fans don't say stuff like that. What can you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it stays at this level for about six months or so, you will see the prices of other products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it stays at this level for about six months or so, you will see the prices of other products and services increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sad but sometimes a community doesn't truly appreciate what it has until it's gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sad but sometimes a community doesn't truly appreciate what it has until it's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64570</guid></item></channel></rss>