<?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[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16750]]></link><description><![CDATA[No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what they felt, should have given us chronicles so plain and calm. They have nothing to say as from themselves. Their narratives place us without preface, and keep us without comment, among external scenes, in full view of facts, and in contact with the living person whom they teach us to know... Who can fail to recognize a divine provision for placing the disciples of all future ages as nearly as possible in the position of those who had been personally present at "the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God"?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one of the first operators to lower expectations. This second hit to expectations is only likely to raise more questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26645]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning -- just as, if there were no light in the universe, and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know that it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;   And what is it all, when all is done?    The net of the fisher the burden breaks,     And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love spends his all, and still hath store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love spends his all, and still hath store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is in Heaven. I\'m just traveling through this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47783</guid></item></channel></rss>