<?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[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet   As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be cognizant of the real dangers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19442]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up to where we wanted it. We forced them to hurry up their offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shad-bush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut  And quivering poplar to the roving breeze ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shad-bush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut  And quivering poplar to the roving breeze   Gave a balsamic fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose,"   Replies a Flea upon his nose;    "Be humble, learn thyself to scan;     Know, pride was never made for man."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,   Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars    Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer     Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,      Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26548]]></link><description><![CDATA[For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âa life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14596]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand solutions and services that are channel-ready, as well as offering partner programs that truly stimulate an ecosystem of growth, collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to being the IT industry's partner of choice and we are honored that the Business Partner community selected IBM as the company they most want to partner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22961]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47901</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[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath often left me mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item></channel></rss>