<?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[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49088]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope it will give us several shots a day. We've never had the whole team play well. We've had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope it will give us several shots a day. We've never had the whole team play well. We've had one (golfer) play well, but when you have three of your five players in the top 10 then usually you're in contention for the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23881]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed into Canada, it may justify another rate hike to 4.50.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12305]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they say they are going to call the rules, he should be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564]]></link><description><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10260]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41975]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51295]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46153]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's helped me a lot with my situational moves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1748]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126]]></link><description><![CDATA[United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame;  Alas! the other that it bears   Reminds us of your shame.    Your banner's constellation types     White freedom with its stars,      But what's the meaning of the stripes?       They mean your negroes' scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  I would not favour a fiction to keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643</guid></item></channel></rss>