<?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[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008]]></link><description><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65085]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22122]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo there, are the signs of His coming", think to be too keen for Him, and spy His approach? When He tells them to watch lest He find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest He should succeed in coming like a thief!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity andfascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious Saviour rise. Christians! Dry your flowing tears, Chase those unbelieving fears; Look on his deserted grave, Doubt no more his power to save. Ye who are of death afraid, Triumph in the scattered shade: Drive your anxious cares away, See the place where Jesus lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33463]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They got beat pretty bad by Elk Creek last year. They knew they needed this win to set the tone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37337]]></link><description><![CDATA[They got beat pretty bad by Elk Creek last year. They knew they needed this win to set the tone for the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23938]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hickory feels uncomfortable with its current (economic) tempo. I hope I can stimulate some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hickory feels uncomfortable with its current (economic) tempo. I hope I can stimulate some things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64848]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193]]></link><description><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63167</guid></item></channel></rss>