<?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[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? We proved to people we could play and that gave us confidence heading into states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3885]]></link><description><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</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 was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You can't ask for anything more. Sometimes the breaks don't go your way. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. We just have to win out from here. It's going to be a good test for the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is courage at ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physical player that finished his checks and could play that grinding game which all fans would respect, but certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39658]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physical player that finished his checks and could play that grinding game which all fans would respect, but certainly in Philly they really respected that kind of play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,   And they who follow me reach every state    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,        I answer not, and I return no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set   His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud    Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give     Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him      Eternally--bidding the lip of man       Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour        Incense of awe-struck praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath these green trees rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies;  The time shall come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath these green trees rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies;  The time shall come when these green trees shall fall,   And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10656]]></link><description><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mischievous DogA dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal;  But as the slow years darklier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal;  But as the slow years darklier roll,   Grown wiser, the experienced soul    Will own as dearer far than they     The lips which kiss the tears away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51426</guid></item></channel></rss>