<?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[The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the Health Department ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the Health Department said our buildings were unsafe for water production. But they told me (Wednesday) that village water had been tested and passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48839]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeenhurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too complacent about explaining the changes to the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ever driven one of those cars is impressed with its speed and handling. To this day, there are all kinds of shootouts between the Grand Nationals and Mustangs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said each day, he wants to work as hard as Dan did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32435]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said each day, he wants to work as hard as Dan did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professionalclass is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reducesthe professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readilyreplaceable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is a friend who will never betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is a friend who will never betray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want to take a step back. My confidence is through the roof. Confidence is what you have to have at this level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a great thing to pursue,   Dies ere he knows it.    That low man goes on adding one to one,     His hundreds soon hit:      His high man, aiming at a million,       Misses an unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want the teams to know I'm always prepared -- studying, breaking down game film, learning the system, execution -- I'm all business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291</guid></item></channel></rss>