<?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[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We need state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40904]]></link><description><![CDATA[High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We need state laws to help knock those barriers down -- unfortunately the drug industry continues to stop those efforts at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49663]]></link><description><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4193]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48124]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just got so conditioned over the last few years to getting multiple offers so quickly that we forgot what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just got so conditioned over the last few years to getting multiple offers so quickly that we forgot what a realistic market is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64799]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14770]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest accomplishment has been to consistently hit timeline commitments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29282</guid></item></channel></rss>