<?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[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be glad for them to come to us, obviously. (Heidelberg) coach (Eugene) Harmon said their field had a few trees down on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted my knees up a little higher. Maybe I could have gotten in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an American before any party preference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an American before any party preference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of expected him to be suspended. Kicking has no part in this game. I understand the suspension. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of expected him to be suspended. Kicking has no part in this game. I understand the suspension. It's tough. Things happen so quick, but you shouldn't kick anyone. I think he realizes his mistake and I don't think you will see him do that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39181]]></link><description><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1056</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, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></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/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24709]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11448]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very fortunate because we're starting fall break tonight. Could you think about missing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday classes two weeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very fortunate because we're starting fall break tonight. Could you think about missing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday classes two weeks in a row? But, you know they do it in basketball and do it in other sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide   Perhaps may fight again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,   And all that thou hast done for me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17850]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item></channel></rss>