<?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[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass.  . . . .   As much to the lively grey    'Tis as good i' th' night as day:     . . . .      She's a savour to the glass,       And excuse to make it pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great businesses turne on a little pinne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great businesses turne on a little pinne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting elementary school students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a great hitting ball club. Benton did an exceptional job for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3993]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34142]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country. It has instincts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country. It has instincts to protect the poor and the powerless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is anotherstep forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is anotherstep forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932]]></link><description><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when a person cannot answer directly to your question, probably the answer is too painful for u to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when a person cannot answer directly to your question, probably the answer is too painful for u to know or too hard for them to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37005]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity supply prices at historic levels, Maine consumers cannot stand another federally imposed rate hike. At some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40278]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity supply prices at historic levels, Maine consumers cannot stand another federally imposed rate hike. At some point, you have to vote with your feet, and that?s what we did today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55106]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39530]]></link><description><![CDATA[[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ever feel like an outsider when the rest share a history that she doesn't?] Curiously, I went to a wedding quite near the start, and when we got to the church this charming man came up and said, 'Bride or groom?' ... Groom! You're with the groom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fun group and I knew there was a competitive bent, but I just didn't know how competitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41754]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fun group and I knew there was a competitive bent, but I just didn't know how competitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Country music is three chords and the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the concrete is just basically disintegrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You lose, and it's all your fault. I'm glad I'm on the good end of things. I could've been the sacrificial lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect that I worshipped the devil   If I thanked my God for worldly things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/182</guid></item></channel></rss>