<?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 wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made it close. In the fourth they started trapping aggressively and we started turning the ball over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34667]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made it close. In the fourth they started trapping aggressively and we started turning the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? (Maria:) A dry jest, sir.  (Andrew:) Are you full of them?   (Maria:) Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends. Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63978]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must be   Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42760]]></link><description><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of maybe one and a half good chances we had tonight. I think that Kevin (Hartman) came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of maybe one and a half good chances we had tonight. I think that Kevin (Hartman) came up big to keep us in it. But it just wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37699]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vibrations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vibrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urgentur, ignotique longa    Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While global economic growth rates have slowed from the exceptionally high levels of 2004, the emerging economies remain buoyant, offsetting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33801]]></link><description><![CDATA[While global economic growth rates have slowed from the exceptionally high levels of 2004, the emerging economies remain buoyant, offsetting slowing industrial production growth in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23768]]></link><description><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item></channel></rss>