<?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[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that because he was on the board so long and nobody challenged him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that because he was on the board so long and nobody challenged him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283]]></link><description><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy ofwhat you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was cut in half, and there's no longer a two-tiered structure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been able to play defense in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34663]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been able to play defense in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition can creep as well as soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do they trust on the way to move forward. The legacy of Sharon will live on, irrespective of who succeeds him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7901]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for dignity; I have also no coubt that there are times when it makes for complete irrelevance; for, if there is one thing that is true of religion it is that it must always be expressible in contemporary terms. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   Wide as the waters be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   She struck the rude Tarpeian rock;    Sparks were kindled by the shock--     Again thy fires began to burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66089]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66089</guid></item></channel></rss>