<?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[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; and teach me how   To name the bigger light, and how the less,    That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee     And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,      The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was looking pretty desperate out here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless there is some setback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very scary moment. I'd had some previous neck problems, so when I hit the goalpost, I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very scary moment. I'd had some previous neck problems, so when I hit the goalpost, I felt a lot of pain and my (left) hand was partly numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not help us move forward. We were trying not to use the celebrations as a kind of challenge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not help us move forward. We were trying not to use the celebrations as a kind of challenge. Political dialogue has to be the main tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil and good are God's right hand and left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always say don't make plans, make options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?      It may be for years and it may be forever;       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9922]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which He says shall be full, but to have fellowship with Him? He had perfect joy on our account, when He rejoiced in foreknowing and predestinating us; but that joy was not in us, because we did not then exist; it began to be in us, when He called us. And this joy we rightly call our own, this joy wherewith we shall be blessed; which is begun in the faith of them who are born again, and shall be fulfilled in the reward of them who rise again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man gift will make a way for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man gift will make a way for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32108]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean nothing. It doesn't matter who's playing well, who's not playing well. It's who comes out and wants to win it. Northridge came out and wanted to win it. We just happened to want it more in the fourth quarter and we did things right in the fourth quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32108</guid></item></channel></rss>