<?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[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Whynot me? Why not now?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,   And shed their substance on the floating air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39412]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word -- definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women should be obscene and not heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women should be obscene and not heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24335]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61255]]></link><description><![CDATA[That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they took that lead, we were in control the entire game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel  (Who had no doubt some noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56195]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel  (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)   Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock    Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to get them ready to play in those pressure situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48770]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember saying that. It was right around the baseball playoffs. I always thought it was pretty cool how a manager would send a pitcher ahead to the next city to wait for his team. I wanted to give Will the opportunity to do that. Why sit around for five months doing nothing? I figured she could be up there scouting out the hotels and restaurants and sightseeing tours for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35491</guid></item></channel></rss>