<?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 highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said they understand that there is a pervasive negative attitude in the county, ... There is a lot of criticism. The focus seems to be on criticizing county government as opposed to, at least sometimes, looking at the good things that are going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,    All other parts remaining as they were;     And they, so perfect in their misery,      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64361]]></link><description><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141]]></link><description><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49365]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45768]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate Him in His works, whereby He renders Himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended up winning the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right reason is stronger than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right reason is stronger than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week was the most consistent they've been. They were coming off the ball every play and controlling the line of scrimmage and we need them to do that again to allow our linebackers to make plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on the job a couple of weeks ago, he's been working on that file.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I thought we might have one after how well we played against Pilot Rock. But at least it was now and not next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6143]]></link><description><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting better, so we can try to extend the season as long as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53140</guid></item></channel></rss>