<?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 ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships arebuilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting hell invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide me not, laborious band! For the idle flowers I brought;  Every aster in my hand   Goes home loaded with a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game came together and they played really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some airports where a change of terminals is needed, that time can run upwards of two hours. By locating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36818]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some airports where a change of terminals is needed, that time can run upwards of two hours. By locating in the same terminal, the minimum time can be as little as 35 minutes for some flights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. People say I must be nuts. Well, maybe I am. ... We all have goals. Why wouldn't they be the highest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had to close the door on him and hope he wasn't going to turn me around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching like we do in practice, and we are finally getting settled down in a game situation. Our defense seems to be clicking really nicely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball well. His career with us has been pretty good. His bat is going to take him wherever he wants to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57708]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39936]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made up for a very frustrating first half rather quickly. They responded to what we asked them to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352]]></link><description><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124</guid></item></channel></rss>