<?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[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its tightening cycle. That's a reason to sell dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a very strong team in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is able who thinks he is able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is able who thinks he is able.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect that I worshipped the devil   If I thanked my God for worldly things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day--   Confound the cats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A snow yeare, a rich yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A snow yeare, a rich yeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can compare.   - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16108</guid></item></channel></rss>