<?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[Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out on Election Day remains to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is logic on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is logic on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defense do the work for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55269]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35844</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/35613]]></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 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â 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/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted them to come away with the feeling that they could make a positive difference in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted them to come away with the feeling that they could make a positive difference in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63587]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968]]></link><description><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could have done better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29975]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to you and try to get people to pay attention to this auction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51348]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will do all we can to solve the issue by peaceful means, but one of the ways to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will do all we can to solve the issue by peaceful means, but one of the ways to do that is to prepare for all scenarios, including military ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29622]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about the next generation of the CBC. We are a family, and the family goes from generation to generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item></channel></rss>