<?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[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,--   A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19316]]></link><description><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36534]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy hats we have back there. You'll see them playing as much as the kids are playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41072]]></link><description><![CDATA[With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free throws in the fourth quarter were big. This wasn't one of our best efforts. I think that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free throws in the fourth quarter were big. This wasn't one of our best efforts. I think that is a sign of a good team, to not put up your best effort and still be able to win the district title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what kind of museum it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men pass away, but their deeds abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men pass away, but their deeds abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4766]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50455]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to have another chance to race. I love the Little 500.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665</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[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,   With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   Thy letter, though is long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12982]]></link><description><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around,   In search of Whitbread's best entire.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was on the outside corner, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was on the outside corner,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about a 14-15-point lead, really.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet enables group play around the world, evolving gaming into more of a communal activity. As the games are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet enables group play around the world, evolving gaming into more of a communal activity. As the games are being embraced on a larger scale, it has enough merit to warrant these competitions. ... People can be pessimistic about trends and their longevity. They were right about disco, but not right about rap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs,   And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings--    Rattle his bones over the stones,     He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48780]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38095]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so, for miracles are ceased And therefore we must needs admit the means  How things are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so, for miracles are ceased And therefore we must needs admit the means  How things are perfected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27561</guid></item></channel></rss>