<?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 knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this kid up.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55509]]></link><description><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.  [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,   Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. thanks to Dana Bidne -William Jennings Bryan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42547]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs against him, you enjoy that because you know you've certainly earned them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54924]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight when Pate went out of the game. Burton made a run and took the lead, and we responded back. I was proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gave him a pitcher. He gave us the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771]]></link><description><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces the case for a near-term interest rate cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232]]></link><description><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470</guid></item></channel></rss>