<?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[Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women know not the whole of their coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,    At the last of the thirty palace-gates     The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,      Orders a feast in his favorite room--       Glittering square of colored ice,        Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,         Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,          Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,           Limes and citrons and apricots,            And wines that are known to Eastern princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51899]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when people boarded those trains. It's another way of telling the story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31627]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1710]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first possession. But we gave away scoring opportunities and we didn't even score at all in the third quarter. It was a good season but we ran out of gas tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33821]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids don't work, works for nerve pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51967]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no night without stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no night without stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover over the next quarter or two,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22843]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team that gets the calls. Today I thought we earned the calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940</guid></item></channel></rss>