<?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[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41780]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I thought maybe if it was on a different track I could have beaten that kid, but that's part of racing, the type of track you're on and stuff like that. I always want to win, but that's kind of a reality. It was a good showing to be there and finish second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643]]></link><description><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27206]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58996]]></link><description><![CDATA[And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good finds good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good finds good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a saint when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656]]></link><description><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,   Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,    Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,     To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;      Or sweating slaves support the shady load,       When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;        Britain in winter only knows its aid,         To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60000</guid></item></channel></rss>