<?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 Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NRSC has never heard of them and we're not affiliated with their fund-raising efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NRSC has never heard of them and we're not affiliated with their fund-raising efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have jumped the gun. I'm sure on reflection they will regret they have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33845]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have jumped the gun. I'm sure on reflection they will regret they have done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal was to offer something unprecedented to the greatest baseball fans in America. The people of the state of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal was to offer something unprecedented to the greatest baseball fans in America. The people of the state of Wisconsin continue to show tremendous passion for the Brewers, and this is our gesture to thank them for their incredible support in my first year as owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66128]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here andnow, unless I am letting my consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here andnow, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands andexpectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471</guid></item></channel></rss>