<?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[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63637]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2080]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will have to take new measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History belongs to the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19351]]></link><description><![CDATA[History belongs to the winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? (when asked about his rapport with wide receiver Jerry Rice)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to have a sense of place, an identity as a destination, and that's what these signs are designed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ye come to weep,   Let One, most loving of you all,    Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;     He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429]]></link><description><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,   Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,    Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's for else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13837]]></link><description><![CDATA[His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's for else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. People doubted us in this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52119]]></link><description><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,  And rolls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57910]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,  And rolls its awful burden on the wind,   The Lightnings flash a larger curve, and more    The Noise astounds; till overhead a sheet     Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts,      And opens wider; shuts and opens still       Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze.        Follows the loosen'd aggravated Roar,         Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal,          Crush'd, horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259]]></link><description><![CDATA[These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, but I think he's come close to maxing out the benefit for golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impact is real, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impact is real,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item></channel></rss>