<?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[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8638]]></link><description><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and sweet,   "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66179]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in the firing of the shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spike in oil weighs on equities, and higher-risk stocks such as technology are the ones to get hit first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spike in oil weighs on equities, and higher-risk stocks such as technology are the ones to get hit first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will not look the same by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about creating buzz, ... We have the course, the accommodations, the resort-type area . . . This news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35345]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about creating buzz, ... We have the course, the accommodations, the resort-type area . . . This news is just a step closer to really making this marathon shine as an international event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hottest red carpet looks are going to be swept off the face. Or a little slung bun or sexy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hottest red carpet looks are going to be swept off the face. Or a little slung bun or sexy pony tail. But definitely dressed up with some hot jewels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46237]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16586</guid></item></channel></rss>