<?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[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids played with lots of desire, hustle and Badger spirit all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love gives itself; it is not bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love gives itself; it is not bought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finally have established that there will be no runaway use of contract employees, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finally have established that there will be no runaway use of contract employees,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an older team and they're a young team. (We) played pretty well on defense to hold them to 14 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an older team and they're a young team. (We) played pretty well on defense to hold them to 14 points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came back and capital flowed in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and other areas that are interest-rate sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283]]></link><description><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was also an outage from Stella Road west to the county line, those folks were out, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32819]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was also an outage from Stella Road west to the county line, those folks were out, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be your child's favorite toy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783</guid></item></channel></rss>