<?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[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190]]></link><description><![CDATA[My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty from natives. Several states have gone as far as to make it illegal to use any crayfish as fishing bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every penny extra we put in is going to add to that $300,000 that we were over (to start with). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every penny extra we put in is going to add to that $300,000 that we were over (to start with).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30893</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[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple things, like how to hold a stick properly and defensive coverage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53853]]></link><description><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on offense, and I'm disappointed we didn't capitalize on those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring eyes:   Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.    Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,     Such screams to hear, such sights to see!      My brain, my brain,--I know, I know       I am not mad but soon shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy continue, eventually they (Japan) will depart from the zero interest rate policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27112]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take that gamble to rebuild, it will pay off. The community is behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item></channel></rss>