<?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[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to agree with it. But what Senator Frist has had to say is weighty, and I think may bring us all together on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing on the side doesn't equate to spring training. There's just not the same intensity. There's nobody with a bat in his hands telling you that you just made a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63935]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837]]></link><description><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51149]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing, ... And I think thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s what our concern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36875]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing, ... And I think thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s what our concern was. WeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not trying to tell Auburn who should be the chief executive officer. (WeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re) asking them to go ahead and make decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got it all taken care of in about two hours. We were surprised how quickly it all came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33947]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got it all taken care of in about two hours. We were surprised how quickly it all came together. There was a lot of interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause waits on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause waits on success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell... and in Earth -- death and the rest -- and by itself, sin, we would rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain that is not sin. To me was shown no harder hell than sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34583]]></link><description><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829]]></link><description><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32229]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were challenging because they had to portray them in three stages of their lives, from their 20s, 40s to their 60s,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to redeem our loss.    Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795]]></link><description><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,   Thou art the torturer of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19254</guid></item></channel></rss>