<?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[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30935]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before the Super Bowl contenders are decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some pressure so they wouldn't have the opportunity to just pound the ball inside on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38092]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45849]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space to fall further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38208]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[We believe] that today's weakness related to the news that Russia is pulling poultry import licenses is a buying opportunity. We believe that the Russian government will issue the licenses fairly quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39608]]></link><description><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38098]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21960</guid></item></channel></rss>