<?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[When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15549]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love means never having to say you're sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love means never having to say you're sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is a victory, not a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489]]></link><description><![CDATA[People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, in terms of focusing on the campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/505]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real valuable thing is intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro,  And having met, drift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26804]]></link><description><![CDATA[As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro,  And having met, drift once again apart,   So, fleeting is the intercourse of men.    E'en as a traveler meeting with the shade     Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes,      Then leaves its shelter to pursue his ways,       So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is a half-filled auditorium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19135</guid></item></channel></rss>