<?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[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the handmaid of genius]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of instances they can be explained. All of these circumstances are valid reasons for concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines are not reliable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its stone, Bloodstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26369]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its stone, Bloodstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37621]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue never growes old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue never growes old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see;  All discord, harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54252]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see;  All discord, harmony not understood;   All partial evil, universal good;    And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,     One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they had that one big inning. We are still playing well right now; we should be happy to be 9-2. We beat these guys two out of three and now we need to look ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21872]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil brings in so they wouldn't be able to cut supplies for long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had it when he got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had it when he got here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33695]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus. We have our own agenda. We need to conduct open talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39740]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get this federal fiscal house in order. ... I would give him a much higher grade if he had vetoed just one (spending) bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11693</guid></item></channel></rss>