<?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[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19625]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,   By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of momentum if the game is close. Rochester played us tough and made a lot of shots they needed to. We needed to dig down deep and play well defensively to get some stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49109]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortunately, with the bases loaded, he was able to hit a home run for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5743]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8340]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on a ball cap or beret as the all-American girl-on-the-go. She's totally sweet, fun loving ... she probably bakes cookies. Guaranteed, her cell phone rings off the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases desperate grown By desparate appliance are relieved,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases desperate grown By desparate appliance are relieved,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down to execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!   This is the throne of Mammon grey."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostatin which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-iscalled the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "DeadZone.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. There is no possibility for the Fed to stop at the current 4.5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2446]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2446</guid></item></channel></rss>