<?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[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was a significant factor in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hit that first 3 and gave us that sense of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see the charmed door of dreams   Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the everpure roseWhether her hueis violet or roseWhether she growsin freedom or rowsever to God in waves arosethe love perfumefrom the heart of the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need for preprinted cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all ahead of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60580]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38257]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team, ... We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66252]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773]]></link><description><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very cold and windy storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. He's just stronger. You take that whole group of guys and the seasons they all had last year, and they just took all that confidence into this year. Add Mark Mulder to that mix and there are five guys who can win every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. [Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;  Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316]]></link><description><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2828</guid></item></channel></rss>