<?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[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,   Seeming with bright eyes to listen-    For what listen they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59816]]></link><description><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                                                                                         want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a pretty good hitter. I'm not going to throw too much inside because I don't want to hit him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34793]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a pretty good hitter. I'm not going to throw too much inside because I don't want to hit him. I'll try to make good pitches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not becomeGod for me, you wrong me.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not becomeGod for me, you wrong me.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42138]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed to be leading to bail him out, You never want to call him dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37312</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[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn,  A breath may burst his bubble shares,   And soft, white hands could hardly earn    A living that would serve his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's room in the decision for an appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's room in the decision for an appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,   Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth    After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a linebacker in college, I feel I have an advantage because I can easily associate with my guys. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a linebacker in college, I feel I have an advantage because I can easily associate with my guys. I can understand what they see and experience on the playing field, and it helps me teach them how to react and what techniques to use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19242]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30189]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain,  So on the sea of life, alas!   Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11419]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770]]></link><description><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770</guid></item></channel></rss>