<?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[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for it. It builds up your confidence when you work hard at something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61038]]></link><description><![CDATA[No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28635]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got room to fill out. He's a strong kid, he's just lean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a common thing we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a common thing we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team, we had a little higher expectations coming in. But we've had to look at Plan B. We've tried to evaluate performance rather than wins and losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is going to be lots of twists and turns here, and I think both the U.S. and Iraq will end up making some compromises, accommodations, as we get towards endgame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion,   Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the difference in the game. He hit everything they threw at him. I'm really happy for Jeff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32500]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the difference in the game. He hit everything they threw at him. I'm really happy for Jeff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49383]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16739]]></link><description><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her maid art far more fair than she.   Be not her maid, since she is envious.    Her vestal livery is but sick and green,     And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 Web sites in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856]]></link><description><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66865</guid></item></channel></rss>