<?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[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53274]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46290]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a tree frog that's possibly a new species. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tree frog that's possibly a new species.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20310]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three balls hit to the infield that were all taken care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three balls hit to the infield that were all taken care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4872]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32763]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still learning how to run. He's not really comfortable reading blocks, or getting that pre-snap read. He's still a beginner as far as that goes, as far as using his eyes. The say a great runner has vision. He has all the tools, but he's still learning to use that vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15882]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15882</guid></item></channel></rss>