<?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[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willing contemplation of vice is vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willing contemplation of vice is vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not the moment of regrets. We are sorry, embittered, but this is soccer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a small school, we don't have to follow the mold of other schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the brown rocks left bare on every hand,   As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no true friends in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the growth of the kids that do the right things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item></channel></rss>