<?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 simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure for pressure. That was one of the things we talked about in the locker room. Benet is known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure for pressure. That was one of the things we talked about in the locker room. Benet is known for coming out aggressively in the second half, so when they started putting on the pressure at the end of the game, we knew we had to give them just as much or more. And that's what we tried to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24700]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no more, and shall no more return.   Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;    I stay a little longer, as one stays     To cover up the embers that still burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we knocked the bastard off! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we knocked the bastard off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going into the season, ... we thought Darius was our No. 1 corner. Not having him obviously hurt. But that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going into the season, ... we thought Darius was our No. 1 corner. Not having him obviously hurt. But that's the game of football. We've got to be able to close ranks in the secondary. You've got to get the next guy ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bees hony is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bees hony is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51547]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451]]></link><description><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When you don't listen to what's being told it becomes rather frustrating. Like I told the guys, I will tell you what I want you to do and when it doesn't work, I'll take the blame but if you don't do what you are asked nothing can work. We had four guys doing one thing and one guy doing something else. It was one of our worst outings of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier  Than all thy woes can stir. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12018]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier  Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee   To nothing but despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words leave off, music begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words leave off, music begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item></channel></rss>