<?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[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a good start after the bats struggled in the first game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a good start after the bats struggled in the first game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king  Of every virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2759]]></link><description><![CDATA[See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king  Of every virtue gives renown to men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19693]]></link><description><![CDATA[And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;   But when did woman ever yet invent?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34642]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Well spielen  Ball mit dem Menschen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11700]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the poor that are hit the hardest and they have the least coping mechanisms and probably don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41514]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the poor that are hit the hardest and they have the least coping mechanisms and probably don't have insurance. Their homes are completely gone and they probably won't be able to rebuild and regain their livelihoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a great 20 minutes and (then) we lost our composure. We didn't match their intensity to start the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40569]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43110]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they can feel whether   A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52554</guid></item></channel></rss>