<?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[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house   When our gudeman's awa.   - William Julius Mickle,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let all live as they would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let all live as they would die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are playing very well at the moment but we need to encourage each other to do better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still a rookie!' But it was a good experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't throw with great technique and rely more on athleticism and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My coach saw I was hitting in the first quarter, so he just told me to keep shooting. My shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39386]]></link><description><![CDATA[My coach saw I was hitting in the first quarter, so he just told me to keep shooting. My shot was falling tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating;  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,   White and dainty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating;  O'er the dreamy, listless haze,   White and dainty cloudlets floating;    Winking at the blushing trees,     And the sombre, furrowed fallow;      Smiling at the airy ease,       Of the southward flying swallow        Sweet and smiling are thy ways,         Beauteous, golden Autumn days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48550]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not some hidden plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11269]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item></channel></rss>