<?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[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36153]]></link><description><![CDATA[That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems with their size all weekend. The one key difference was their size because we got out-strength a little bit. I thought we had five to eight scoring chances thwarted by them because they we just stronger than us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58032]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336]]></link><description><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a month in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193]]></link><description><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. Farm families need to be reminded about slowing down and taking proper safety precautions. By working together, we are keeping rural kids safe and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40314]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still like to take care of business against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull out of Gaza is not a policy, it is a step. Whether it is a step in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29089]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull out of Gaza is not a policy, it is a step. Whether it is a step in the right direction toward a two-state solution or at least a step toward hope, we don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an ideaproblem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21350]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an ideaproblem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34597]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of Alaska as seen from the air, and with one click of a button, the viewer is able to add the locations of all of the other drilling sites in Alaska. It really drives home that most of Alaska is already open to oil and gas development and there's this one place that we've managed to protect thus far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic factors that caused the market to go down remain in place, and I think those worries are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic factors that caused the market to go down remain in place, and I think those worries are going to be with us for the next couple of months, ... certainly until we get third-quarter earnings reports, and maybe through the election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item></channel></rss>