<?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[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that a vessel was willing to come in here in advance of that September 30th date, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that a vessel was willing to come in here in advance of that September 30th date, I think is a tremendous tribute to the faith that our customers, our users, and our service providers have in South Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15156]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is something you got to make in case you don't die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no taking trout with dry breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39463]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46439]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon   A sadder light than waning moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma has written on George Bush's face.It has sculpted trixoypurine uric acid lines in his browlike music scales with no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma has written on George Bush's face.It has sculpted trixoypurine uric acid lines in his browlike music scales with no notesIt has painted his face the red of cholesterol blockageIt has constricted his right eye.. Time has sculpted Dick Cheney's face.His lip curls with contempt for others.His eyes evade the searchlight of truth.We pray that God give them and all beings mercy.. as God nowremoves them from an office through which they harm hundreds of millions of other beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8196]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to heart it sinks, it steals, it flows, From these that know thee still infecting those. Here is my heart -- from thine, Lord, fill it up, That I may offer it as the holy cup Of thy communion to my every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno   Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum    Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must we then have strange music... unlike the world's music, and a special language with an imagery that illuminates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must we then have strange music... unlike the world's music, and a special language with an imagery that illuminates the minds only of the religious? Or dare we do what our Lord did, and see the Name hallowed in all life that is real and honest and good? Indeed, it was a scandal to the religious men of Jesus' day when they saw what He did with sacred things. With Jesus all life was sacred and nothing was profane until sin entered in. And so it was that the word "common," which used to mean profane and unclean, became the New-Testament word for the Communion of Saints and for the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ball amazingly, but we're a lot better than we showed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,   High on the hollow tree;    And the Raven himself, telling his beads     In penance for his past misdeeds,      Upon the top I see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097]]></link><description><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49351]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26325]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26325</guid></item></channel></rss>