<?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[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the first time I was behind the wheel of a fire truck, I was awestruck by the responsibility. Sure you can run a stoplight, but you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you do. That's when I realized each level you reach in the fire department brings on new responsibility. And there are more people under your wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19393]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11082]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36504]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is a home meet, and you're supposed to have some sort of pride at a home meet. You are supposed to stand tall, and we were not standing tall today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will force women out of the state and would cost more money and more time and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31444]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will force women out of the state and would cost more money and more time and a lot of women may not realize they have that option. It increases the trauma for those who have been sexually assaulted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things  Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things  Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,   And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life    Gasping from out the shallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45609]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good team hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22652]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to save up to bring the rest of his family over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29720</guid></item></channel></rss>