<?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[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find astrange picture on your press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find astrange picture on your press.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should this profit thee without the love and grace of God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702]]></link><description><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 years, so we are very good at keeping hold of people once they come to us. Even so, issues were raised about the availability of career breaks, flexible working and working from home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39492]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31157]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we sit down at a table to eat, I don't hesitate to tell her how gross eating meat seems just as often as she nags me about my driving when we are in a car together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, authorof The Hiding Place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17702]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47359]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36400]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12997]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51922]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;   So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.   - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093</guid></item></channel></rss>