<?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[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23976]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46220]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo, and offense to defense transition, is not a huge issue against the 1A schools we play, but to beat a bigger team, it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists to knock and wait for thee!"   And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow,    "To-morrow we will open," I replied,     And when the morrow came I answered still, "To-morrow."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the 6 and 11 ever would be offered, my kids are all moving into school age now. My kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37800]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the 6 and 11 ever would be offered, my kids are all moving into school age now. My kids would be in school during the day; when would I see them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfullynor for much longer unless we see it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfullynor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate ascommon. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   A dog barks when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52219</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[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the tawny bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I,  My thoughts without ceasing brood over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I,  My thoughts without ceasing brood over   A tale of the time gone by.    [Ger., Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten,     Dass ich so traurig bin:      Ein marchen aus alten Zeiten       Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2757]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,    Which, as it seems, make thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199]]></link><description><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to try to reduce the amount of data that's at risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last few minutes, I thought we took a few bad penalties. They are a great team and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32863]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last few minutes, I thought we took a few bad penalties. They are a great team and I think our team can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass the loves a sailor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass the loves a sailor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62097]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62097</guid></item></channel></rss>