<?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[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36572]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, and make sure we're not hurting good employers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44528]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from this credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947]]></link><description><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try and fail, but don't fail to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2755]]></link><description><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)   An horrid chasm disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41535]]></link><description><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42413]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso.] I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903]]></link><description><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66337]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debters are lyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debters are lyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268</guid></item></channel></rss>