<?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[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24475]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of wisdom is eternal thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650]]></link><description><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . . that is God at workhttp://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54893]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your own star! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your own star!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</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[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53459]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, the Gulf Coast is going to be rebuilt, and it's going to be great. God works in mysterious ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;   Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine Byrd started hot as fire and that gave us confidence. We made some little adjustments in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037</guid></item></channel></rss>