<?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[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of Time; glance, if thou have eyes, from the near moving-cause to the far-distant Mover. The stroke that came transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, was it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? Oh, could I transport thee direct from the Beginnings to the Endings, how were thy eyesight unsealed, and thy heart set flaming in the Light-sea of celestial wonder! Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47727]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime a kid wins, it's awesome, and I'm so excited for the guys who do make it. But I'm heartbroken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime a kid wins, it's awesome, and I'm so excited for the guys who do make it. But I'm heartbroken for the kids who don't. You never win. When you bring 12 it's tough to win them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed a change in him, something that goes along with Parkinson's. Sometimes, his speech is so slurred, you can't hardly understand him. But he definitely knows what's going on. That's for sure. He sees everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,  She might ha' been a grandam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,  She might ha' been a grandam ere she died;   And so may you, for a light heart lives long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;   Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065</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[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56116</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[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we got the shots we wanted and were in the right spots to score, so that's all you can ask. As long as we do that, the shots are going to fall eventually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just trying to encourage him and talk to him about what he learned and some of the positives that should have been gained here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the Legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and rebellious: their alienation from God, it is clearly implied, is to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13044</guid></item></channel></rss>