<?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[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing was a shock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing was a shock,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the major factors affecting pork producer profitability is the policy of the government as it impacts a producer's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35426]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the major factors affecting pork producer profitability is the policy of the government as it impacts a producer's cost of doing business and their ability to effectively market their products. This award is a way for us to show our appreciation for the continued support that these legislators have demonstrated to Illinois pork producers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9207]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His unselfishness goes a long way on this team. For example, he'll throw the next pass and he'll knock down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32747]]></link><description><![CDATA[His unselfishness goes a long way on this team. For example, he'll throw the next pass and he'll knock down the open shot. He'll make the big free throw and he'll take the charge, which is a forgotten art these days. He has worked hard and I don't want to sell people that he's just gifted ... nah, he's a kid that has worked very hard everyday to develop his skills and we're seeing the results right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from seven or eight to 14 or 15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12812]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when we're talked about and then not again until the next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559</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[By that sin fell the angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360]]></link><description><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until the markets come back, ... We don't really know how long that wait might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,   By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,     Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.      Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,       By which those great in war, are great in love.        The spring of all brave acts is seated here,         As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  Although tares, or impure vessels, are found in the church, yet this is not a reason why we should withdraw from it. It only behooves us to labor that we may be vessels of gold or of silver. But to break in pieces the vessels of earth belongs to the Lord alone, to whom a rod of iron is also given. Nor let any one arrogate to himself what is exclusively the province of the Son of God, by pretending to fan the floor, clear away the chaff, and separate all the tares by the Judgment of man. This is proud obstinacy and sacrilegious presumption, originating in a corrupt frenzy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39569]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun sets without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun sets without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item></channel></rss>