<?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 make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899]]></link><description><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish she sails to sea,   And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em.    Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep,     Ply every oar, and cheerly with her,      While slow the bending net we sweep,       God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have beaten off a lot of competition from other clubs to secure Martin's signature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have beaten off a lot of competition from other clubs to secure Martin's signature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us six months' worth of supply, meeting at least up to 25 percent of the region's water demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56477]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52012]]></link><description><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men demand rough treatment everywhere! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait;  Nor forget the twain who found you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait;  Nor forget the twain who found you   Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be consistent. I'm not a home run hitter. My job is just to drive in runs when they are there and just get on base and score anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I doubted of this saw, till on a day   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for those who respond to his call with upright life, because in those who are directed to the good by his Spirit he recognizes the only genuine insignia of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35490]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 games, there's 6,000 people waiting to meet you at the airport when you go home. But with us, with our tradition, people say, 'What happened?' We're just a team that came close . . . a team that almost had a chance to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local school districts already have the ability to create anti-bullying policies and curriculum if they deem it necessary, so we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local school districts already have the ability to create anti-bullying policies and curriculum if they deem it necessary, so we're reviewing whether there's a true need for this legislation in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market is just focusing on one or two lines out of the entire speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14154</guid></item></channel></rss>