<?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[If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47560]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887</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[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well as creating the employment opportunities for the local kids to leave school and get a proper job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle, ... The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29388]]></link><description><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle, ... The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot of rainy nights on the streets, so they got overcoats and wore them. They are young. Very refreshing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of love is in the smile we put on someone else face... Asking for nothing in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make three bites of a cherry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make three bites of a cherry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45167]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, andthat people can only experience true success and enduring happiness asthey learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're going to try to make a positive out of it, ... We will have a professional working relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their longstanding relationships with businesses. Our study shows they are correct and provides insight into how today's farmer makes those decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is fostered by concealment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27208]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57774</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[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he would explain his explanation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41240]]></link><description><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other consumer products and media. Despite this, a number of regional newspapers have seen some very impressive results due to investment, audience research and focusing on what their readers want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42261]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win championships and go to the NCAA tournament every year. And that's my job now as a senior to make the guys coming up behind understand that going to the tournament every year just doesn't happen. You've got to earn it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money to pay their light bill by the end of 2007. So there?s definitely going to be a need for changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591</guid></item></channel></rss>