<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have a lot of momentum. We couldn't capitalize on that momentum and that's unusual for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would all like to see Cameron playing at the highest level possible, but he didn't get much game time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would all like to see Cameron playing at the highest level possible, but he didn't get much game time for the seniors against Collingwood last week so we expect him to line up for us this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322]]></link><description><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as He does temporal ones; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35279]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an adult can relate to that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32267]]></link><description><![CDATA[We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, but we respect all fighters.we fight to win, not to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, and we didn't feel like we had any control or say in it, and really we didn't. (Now the) insurance committee will have sole power to bring in representatives of insurance companies to listen to what they have and to make the decision on what insurance coverage is going to be elected by the union and the company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can convince people with money that, yes, you're spending $20 more here, but we offer products you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can convince people with money that, yes, you're spending $20 more here, but we offer products you can't get elsewhere, perhaps it will work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope he wins - I'm rooting for him now. I think he's ready to win a state championship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope he wins - I'm rooting for him now. I think he's ready to win a state championship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate;  Gold does friendship separate;   Gold does civil wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate;  Gold does friendship separate;   Gold does civil wars create.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white as snow;    I like the chaliced lilies,     The heavy Eastern lilies,      The gorgeous tiger-lilies,       That in our garden grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop  To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835]]></link><description><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike such synecdoches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468]]></link><description><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up at your cousin's upcoming wedding reception -- you're good with technology, have you ever considered becoming a Xerox machine repairperson?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12653]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  No harp like my own could so cheerily play,   And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31547</guid></item></channel></rss>