<?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[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patiently bear the burden of poverty. [Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The Tempation to Exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts. No one wants to lose a game where you fought so hard, especially with a charging call at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts. No one wants to lose a game where you fought so hard, especially with a charging call at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10948]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't thought about that at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't thought about that at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40015]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than a quarter of the state's economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50426</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[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item></channel></rss>