<?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'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Concerned Citizens for Bella Vista) recognized the need to have a plan or blueprint of how to get from A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35034]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Concerned Citizens for Bella Vista) recognized the need to have a plan or blueprint of how to get from A to B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We loved with a love that was more than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We loved with a love that was more than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</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[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good shooter tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25228]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some personnel cuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;  Thou with fresh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44553]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;  Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill   While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item></channel></rss>