<?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[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9670]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24393]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a good hater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a good hater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28070]]></link><description><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!   Made answer to my word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530]]></link><description><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4115]]></link><description><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just become a more accepted, more mainstream culinary choice in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just become a more accepted, more mainstream culinary choice in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like [SBVC was] bothered [by the conditions]. Our guys are conditioned, and we used that to our advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56339]]></link><description><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59678]]></link><description><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item></channel></rss>