<?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[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,   High on the hollow tree;    And the Raven himself, telling his beads     In penance for his past misdeeds,      Upon the top I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration of the company. We are not cutting into muscle, and these are not across-the-board cuts. It's only where appropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this kid up.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10376]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding the city limits at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11675]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It could be bloody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</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[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street to bring the Jets back ... It just seems to be more and more serious as time goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild in eager flow.    The earth is dried and parched with heat,     And it hath long'd to be      Released from out the selfish cloud,       To cool the thirsty tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for cure on exercise depend;   God never made his work for man to mend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he is dying;--    Old age, begin sighing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/697</guid></item></channel></rss>