<?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[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34128]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10160]]></link><description><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428]]></link><description><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56020]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most kids, once they see it once are hooked. It's a physical sport, a lot of football players are interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most kids, once they see it once are hooked. It's a physical sport, a lot of football players are interested in it, and every year we seem to get double the amount of kids involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it first happened, I thought about losing [a shot at] the NBA. Once they said I had the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it first happened, I thought about losing [a shot at] the NBA. Once they said I had the same thing [former Longhorn and current Kansas City Chiefs running back] Priest Holmes had, I knew I'd be all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck  Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb   The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch  The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb   Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62117]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his quart and said,   "My work is done, I'll go to bed."    "My work is done!" retorted Joan,     "My work is done! Your constant tone,      But hapless woman ne'er can say       'My work is done' till judgment day."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36193]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath of the middle of Israeli politics there are going to be innumerable theories of what he might have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes have no way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes have no way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721</guid></item></channel></rss>