<?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[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line of scrimmage and we need them to do that again to allow our linebackers to make plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my thoughts of white."   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37747]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63458]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has not wasting time impaired? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50383]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has not wasting time impaired?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24246]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31131]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60159]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60159</guid></item></channel></rss>