<?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 not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38433]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61609]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many a happy accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many a happy accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a lucky win. We weren't very clever in our play but we took our chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a lucky win. We weren't very clever in our play but we took our chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long remembered beggar was his guest,   Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5824]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712]]></link><description><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25670]]></link><description><![CDATA[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/25670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61631]]></link><description><![CDATA[In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can stop the egg eating by macho Mexicans, we can save thousands of turtles. If you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36588]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can stop the egg eating by macho Mexicans, we can save thousands of turtles. If you want to improve your sex performance, go take Viagra. Don't kill one of the oldest animals on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item></channel></rss>