<?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[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59524</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[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly one million copies, it's by far the biggest book we've ever published, quite possibly the biggest [distributor] Dorchester has ever published as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[bring stability to the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273]]></link><description><![CDATA[bring stability to the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may have been Jay Davis' best game here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may have been Jay Davis' best game here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41276]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19621]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that loss and we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that loss and we're trying to re-establish ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766</guid></item></channel></rss>