<?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[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great day for B.C. and, in particular, a great day for health care, ... We are saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35508]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great day for B.C. and, in particular, a great day for health care, ... We are saying big tobacco has to be held to account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see how others are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41434]]></link><description><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and play a give-and-go type game because he's always flying and getting open ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,   Behold their tears and hear their cries!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62662]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48859]]></link><description><![CDATA[O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57677</guid></item></channel></rss>