<?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[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60639]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50273]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63773]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26780]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't seen any signs of Sunny having the form that he had last year. We talked [on Saturday]. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't seen any signs of Sunny having the form that he had last year. We talked [on Saturday]. To me, it's not a mechanics issue. I think he's kind of lost in what he's trying to do, as far as how he wants to execute each pitch. It's not coming naturally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the potential damages of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the potential damages of this product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22672</guid></item></channel></rss>