<?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[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where billows never break, not tempests roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44766]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last minute of the game, we showed what we can do when we want to play. We scored two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last minute of the game, we showed what we can do when we want to play. We scored two goals in the last minute. But for the first 33 minutes, we wouldn't have been able to skate with Carrollton-Farmers Branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not disappointed with bronze today because the big difference is between gold and silver, not silver and bronze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not disappointed with bronze today because the big difference is between gold and silver, not silver and bronze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10333]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song alone,   The deeds of great and noble souls.    [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,     Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;      Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann       Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Traveler and His DogA Traveler about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly. The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting. The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days a year. We're finding all kinds of people who want a vacation home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35547]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932]]></link><description><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away,   Then take her by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item></channel></rss>