<?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[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the New York area, sort of like what Coney Island is to Nathan's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49109]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the iron hot by striking it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the iron hot by striking it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35209]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we will check the accuracy of those reports..then further define our stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16157]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31698]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit lucid proof   That he is honest in the sacred cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60724]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine to cure hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine to cure hatred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62546]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one team a year that goes out the way they want to go out. We didn't go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one team a year that goes out the way they want to go out. We didn't go out the way we wanted to go out this year, but the seniors were great. They were great leaders. I'm going to miss all that. We came up short of a place where we wanted to go, but there's always next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of where we come from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31275]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of where we come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they turned it around and put it on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201</guid></item></channel></rss>