<?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[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk   The hopes of all men and of every nation;    Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:      But to return,--Get very drunk; and when       You wake with headache, you shall see what then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance for future earnings that is far from stellar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11092]]></link><description><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is given to you to drink medicine for your soul from the cup of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how canst thou better become consistent again than in God only? How canst thou better escape death than by the true, real Life -- which is God Himself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he changes speeds, he works quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you say the Republican ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39621]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you say the Republican Congress has wrecked the country, that could trickle down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smiling face is half the meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smiling face is half the meal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. We just kind of keyed on them (and) didn't let them catch the ball in time to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees while they're changing clothes, and there's no exception in the law for Hooters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899]]></link><description><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' **********WinstonChurchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorisinguse of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (BritishPetroleum) in the last 100 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it's not going to stop. It's going on nine or 10 days since he's pitched a game. These are all the things you can't make up for. All you can do is, first and foremost, get him healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28534]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2532]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2532</guid></item></channel></rss>