<?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[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4373]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5075]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22327]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so deaf as those who will not hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18981]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so deaf as those who will not hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people who prefer the way our first records sounded, but if we had more money and time back then, we would have made them sound better. I always want our albums to sound more polished, as they say. Polished is the point for what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed by the market. Especially once victory is attained, which I think it would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22692]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40958]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy votive train of girls and boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354</guid></item></channel></rss>