<?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[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5179]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If we are traveling heavenward, we are already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If we are traveling heavenward, we are already in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47162]]></link><description><![CDATA[When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46392]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18307]]></link><description><![CDATA["There's a time in your life where everyone's got to tell someone to f**k off. So you might as well show someone how to do it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53173]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47440]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406</guid></item></channel></rss>