<?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[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34894]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're back on schedule. We're looking to put out the proposal at about the same time as before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29867]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the first time I was behind the wheel of a fire truck, I was awestruck by the responsibility. Sure you can run a stoplight, but you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you do. That's when I realized each level you reach in the fire department brings on new responsibility. And there are more people under your wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque  Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, impute it not!   The best may err, but you are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt we'll ever call a game again with this stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt we'll ever call a game again with this stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,  She might ha' been a grandam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,  She might ha' been a grandam ere she died;   And so may you, for a light heart lives long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing through the gates of pearly splendor, Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really shine,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;   Run the rapid and leap the fall,    Split at the rock, and together again     Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,      And flee from folly on every side       With a lover's pain to attain the plain,        Far from the hills of Habersham,         Far from the valleys of Hall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55403]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997</guid></item></channel></rss>