<?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[They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24144]]></link><description><![CDATA[They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14685]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1933]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course to law-abiding and productive lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57837]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like that, you can't afford to be off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather deal with it as I am, still have hope until we hear something definite. That's easier for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather deal with it as I am, still have hope until we hear something definite. That's easier for me to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes alone through suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51347]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item></channel></rss>