<?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[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do a lot of showboating on the field. He just played the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work schedule of 12 to 16 hours a day leaves him an in exhaustive state, and just a few drinks -- or any drink -- are too much to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a problem staying together yesterday. I told them to stay together and play together to get through the ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it over a little bit. We forced them to take some poor shots in the third quarter. That gave us an opportunity to get up the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the Blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   May go to whoop and holloa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They sort of made a point of that, which I thought was right, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They sort of made a point of that, which I thought was right,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10911]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,  Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?   And from within a thrilling voice replies,    Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts     Rush on my mind, a thousand images;      And I spring up as girt to run a race!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15069]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588]]></link><description><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but could never make it work. But (North Lenoir) stayed in Cover 2 and just gave it to us. We decided before the game we were going to try it against them; we did it three times and hit it twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the concerns that we would have would be whether it is accurate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32906]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the concerns that we would have would be whether it is accurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reborn, Sapphowears monks' saffron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reborn, Sapphowears monks' saffron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as good as this next year. I'm going to go out, try my hardest and keep that same mind frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on that land even before the church is built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41720</guid></item></channel></rss>