<?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[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bart [Simpson] gets away with doing the things we all wish we could get away with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bart [Simpson] gets away with doing the things we all wish we could get away with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18358]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we hear Oxfamwe think famine..that those who promoteoxeatingcreate famine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing months. The longer this goes on, the more pressure on candidates from both parties to discuss how they will clean up the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a fantastic run. The fundamentals are improving, but maybe not at the right level for the valuations we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a fantastic run. The fundamentals are improving, but maybe not at the right level for the valuations we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,  Where several worthies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,  Where several worthies make one dignity,   Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for a while until there is in-fill or more neighborhoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back and get us. ... Giving somebody an open 3-pointer. Not being in the right place on a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.(7:3).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still a friend in my retreat,   Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66734</guid></item></channel></rss>