<?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[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29257]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to run drugs, you are going to do time in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1266]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43571]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hannah will catch that ball more times than not. Part of the issue is the lack of quality practice time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hannah will catch that ball more times than not. Part of the issue is the lack of quality practice time that we've had. Yes, it's late in the year, but how much of the practice time have we missed. A play that you should make will be harder on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb, If I were a Wise Man,  I would do my part, -- But what I can, I give Him,  Give my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60939]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157]]></link><description><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent every second he's on the field. He leads by example and plays with a tremendous amount of intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware   What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that he is indeed our Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,   And hope will lull those woes to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  However the gospel may be defended, it cannot be defended by concessions which deprive it of its essence or which detract from our Saviour's title to be called The Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item></channel></rss>