<?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 it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44319]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,   And trembl'd with fear at your frown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38067]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get comfortable out there. I told our players to deny him the ball and make him put the ball on the floor and we definitely kept him from hurting us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a family is life's greatest blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a family is life's greatest blessing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be very good next year. This team knows what it takes to get to this point. We should be right back here, hopefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54743]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,   She feels it instantly on every side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49990]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17432]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth   No more upon it than 'twas worth;    But as he got it freely, so     He spent it frank and freely too:      For saints themselves will sometimes be,       Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainlyregret what is already past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainlyregret what is already past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11018]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his last patient to Baker Street station. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4634]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stretch his legs between consultations, Maclean escorted his last patient to Baker Street station.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item></channel></rss>