<?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 rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,   Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.    There we grow early gray, but never wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3748]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, Viewing the towering falcon nigh?  She cuddles low behind the brake:   Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need him over there on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel the presence of the Fairies and the Indians and the Pirates and the lost boys of Never-Never-Never Land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39651]]></link><description><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the poore mans bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the poore mans bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34031]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be as good as last year, but I think 2004 will still be a good year for the stock markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725</guid></item></channel></rss>