<?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["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958]]></link><description><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 it's a moot point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind ever longs for occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind ever longs for occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt's just been a horse for us throughout the second half of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt's just been a horse for us throughout the second half of the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5702]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By time and place,    Till not a woe the bleak world see,     But finds her grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy playing the new ball on it because it moves a lot off the wicket. That will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy playing the new ball on it because it moves a lot off the wicket. That will be for both teams in the second innings also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58033]]></link><description><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66380]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;   So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove yearly what can be adopted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaming commission would look long and hard. We think it would be hard to get licensed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaming commission would look long and hard. We think it would be hard to get licensed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not want FBI agents crawling through his papers unrestricted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not want FBI agents crawling through his papers unrestricted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item></channel></rss>