<?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[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel frugalitatis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out; out-sized and out-speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end,  The consummation to the inward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end,  The consummation to the inward sense   Of beauty apprehended from without,    I still call love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is good for you...in small doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is good for you...in small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56703]]></link><description><![CDATA[My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart  Beats on forever as of old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58526]]></link><description><![CDATA[World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart  Beats on forever as of old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be left alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be left alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who injures one man threatens many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who injures one man threatens many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live according to your income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live according to your income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much further along than anything I anticipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10724]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!   . . . .    Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!     In Dixie Land I'll take my stand      To lib and die in Dixie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448</guid></item></channel></rss>