<?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[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28205]]></link><description><![CDATA[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids who are put into the adult system re-offend quicker and more seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me  To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn decorations all   Of the great tomb of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in Spam?nostrils brains?and eyesintestinal linings and uteri?anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?except the blood already out the doorSpam comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61354]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in Spam?nostrils brains?and eyesintestinal linings and uteri?anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?except the blood already out the doorSpam comes from offalSpam smells... awfulfrom murdering pigs Hormel makes Spamfrom butchering pigs Hormel makes ham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,   Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives.For that I give thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5096</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[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4631]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33488]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take the test later. Right now I'm just staying in shape, working out four days a week lifting weights and running three days a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very important in today's economy. Buyers are looking for the best real estate value and that's what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35120]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very important in today's economy. Buyers are looking for the best real estate value and that's what we offer. I believe the best time to buy a home is when the pricing is right and we've accomplished that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651]]></link><description><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21624]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's delays are not God's denials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video CD players weren't necessarily supported by the Hollywood studios, but Indian and Chinese movie studios made content available and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Video CD players weren't necessarily supported by the Hollywood studios, but Indian and Chinese movie studios made content available and people were willing to buy them. I think you could see, to that extent, more than one standard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32290]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to do, because many, many offers are fraught with upfront fees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, than thinking about it too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about the nature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about the nature of the transformation which our Lord's body underwent in his resurrection, and if we know anything about physics and biology we are quite likely to ask them. But, since we are concerned with an occurrence which is by hypothesis unique in certain relevant aspects, we are most unlikely to be able to give confident answers to them. [Paul M.] van Buren's remarks about biology and the twentieth century are nothing more than rhetoric or, at best, are simply empirical statements about his own psychology. The first century knew as well as the twentieth that dead bodies do not naturally come to life again, and no amount of twentieth-century knowledge about natural processes can tell us what may happen by supernatural means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</guid></item></channel></rss>