<?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[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, he has been a powerful voice for regional cooperation and collaboration with outstanding results. His accomplishments are numerous, but this will almost certainly be his lasting legacy to our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42895]]></link><description><![CDATA[So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814]]></link><description><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing will especially help those on fixed incomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation to generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are strapped into waiting the five year period, even when the market price for our property has increased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are strapped into waiting the five year period, even when the market price for our property has increased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61049]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61049</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[There are no heresies in a dead religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207</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[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever have to leave the club I will be very sorry because I have a lot of ties here now. I would like to stay here for a few more years yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36504]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is a home meet, and you're supposed to have some sort of pride at a home meet. You are supposed to stand tall, and we were not standing tall today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:  Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something given that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something given that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you see him. He's very unique. He sits with his back to the audience, the organ facing backstage. You can see his feet, and he puts on quite a foot show. You're just amazed. There's not an age that doesn't appreciate him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</guid></item></channel></rss>