<?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[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37384]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. Now, it comes down to reactions, quickness and your teammates. The guy who wins usually did a better job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51966]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors:  (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time.  (2) They gave the same testimony every time.  (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.  They are but beggars that can count their worth;   But my true love is grown to such excess    I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is no longer playing. He's in school and he'll finish the semester but he just doesn't feel comfortable with the shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is the fact he does very well with his opportunities,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18684]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost die for food, and let me have it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense and hockey will be here for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25061]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We match up our corners vs. wide receivers in everything we do. If it falls out that those two are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We match up our corners vs. wide receivers in everything we do. If it falls out that those two are hooked up, that's what it'll be. They move around so much and they put their guys in a lot of different positions.... They've got playmakers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned to shy away from speculation and just go out on the field and do what I can do. The rest is out of my control. You'll drive yourself crazy speculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They laugh that win! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51457]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laugh that win!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18227]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous amount of poise for a ninth-grader. There were some rough spots, but this gives us something to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42233]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. [Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque divitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171</guid></item></channel></rss>