<?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[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him. He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel. The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, if the beast was as big as that in size. Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out, said her son, and do not be angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you don't come out and guard them, they are going to shoot 3s. We really struggled defensively, and honestly, that's the first time we've struggled defensively this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a great place to be a part of. I think (outsiders) are going to like it and they'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40125]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a great place to be a part of. I think (outsiders) are going to like it and they'll want it in their town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these higher levels, it has been an easy push to the upside and has been helped by lack of liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22539]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,   Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61310]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!  Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,   The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make our choices, then our choices make us!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16990]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16990</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></channel></rss>