<?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[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet is fine. The people are fucked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet is fine. The people are fucked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, you have to treat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, you have to treat those guys a little differently, and Andrew did a real nice job with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47099]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth   Repeats the story of her birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30669]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand up and say that is not down to me coaching on the field. You'd be better off asking Michael Foley and Richard Graham about that because they have been in charge, not me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and Eliot looks forward to debating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17044]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to make it well/   My mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like to win, they're probably say this one. I think everyone wants to do well at home and protect the home turf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46446</guid></item></channel></rss>