<?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[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we read history we make history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we read history we make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, and live laborious days;   But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,    And think to burst out into sudden blaze,     Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,      And slits the thin-spun life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day never comes when it'll du   To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,   And that a Lord may be an owl,    A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,     And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60512]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot   And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978]]></link><description><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55581]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;  What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;   On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that provide this access.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. Thisis simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what hepretends to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48085]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a 'No', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a 'No',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item></channel></rss>