<?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[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of things that don't make sense about this picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1051]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust demand for cruise vacations continued into our seasonally strong summer period. Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs, resulting in higher profits and another record third quarter,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostileworld. Same world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostileworld. Same world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point rise for Fed fund rates at 4.75 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray without ceasing, yet such is our weakness, which requires to be supported, such our torpor, which requires to be stimulated, that it is requisite for us to appoint special hours for this exercise, hours which are not to pass away without prayer, and during which the whole affections of our minds are to be completely occupied; namely, when we rise in the morning, before we commence our daily work, when we sit down to food, when by the blessing of God we have taken it, and when we retire to rest. This, however, must not be a superstitious observance of hours, by which, as it were, performing a task to God, we think we are discharged as to other hours. It should rather be considered a discipline by which our weakness is exercised and stimulated. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681</guid></item></channel></rss>