<?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[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518]]></link><description><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley  The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662]]></link><description><![CDATA[But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15643]]></link><description><![CDATA[My twin and Iwere wombmatesand then roommates.Some day our bodieswill be tombmates.(as their souls will be togetherwith those of their husbands in paradise).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kick against the goad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kick against the goad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27342]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. I thought we played pretty good, but pretty good isn't enough against Florida.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dual-sided thing. As much as we knew in our dugout that we could come back against East Carolina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34471]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dual-sided thing. As much as we knew in our dugout that we could come back against East Carolina, they knew it too. Maybe we didn't do it all by ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51427]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of the largest public workers union in the state. That is one of the largest conflicts of interest that we've ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact be worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united;  For never but by British hands   Maun British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united;  For never but by British hands   Maun British wrangs be righted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45764</guid></item></channel></rss>