<?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[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24372]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would've been back immediately if they had allowed somebody in my family to take my children. That day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would've been back immediately if they had allowed somebody in my family to take my children. That day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy from Russia andmillions of anonymous women and men live nonviolencehttp://PostPoems.com/members/ar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country that at least two of the identified terrorists so far were people known to intelligence and immigration agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40942]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, celebratory thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; Ilooked into the soul of the boy next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; Ilooked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31776]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other. Thanks to Mike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1388]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other. Thanks to Mike Doherty -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2248]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28666]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States has not shown a preference strong enough to affect buying decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We immediately conducted an in-depth review and our employees have also been correcting the situation on an individual basis. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31179]]></link><description><![CDATA[We immediately conducted an in-depth review and our employees have also been correcting the situation on an individual basis. The review is now complete and refunds have been initiated for the remaining accounts affected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item></channel></rss>