<?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[Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54203]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61215]]></link><description><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy what you can, endure what you must! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy what you can, endure what you must!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same religion that saves - Damns You]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5759]]></link><description><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when some of our girls stepped up. They didn't want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1210]]></link><description><![CDATA[One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to redeem our loss.    Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item></channel></rss>