<?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[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our penalty kill was as close to perfect as it could be. In their zone we were tremendous and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our penalty kill was as close to perfect as it could be. In their zone we were tremendous and our pressure up ice was really good. There were great clears and the guys really let me see the puck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17391]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der Welt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62202]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   Its customs and its businesses,    Is no concern at all of his,     And says--what says he?--Caw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, "Looking for gold, ya durn fool." He'd say, "Your pick is gold," and I'd say, "Well, that was easy." Good joke, huh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19618]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36667]]></link><description><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business is there to be taxed, and to support the election of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40588]]></link><description><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but could never make it work. But (North Lenoir) stayed in Cover 2 and just gave it to us. We decided before the game we were going to try it against them; we did it three times and hit it twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, and the guy calls up and makes a joke about it. He said it was totally disarming. It was also totally brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33261</guid></item></channel></rss>