<?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[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light   Succeeds the keen and frosty night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in motion be like water...at rest, like a mirror.resound like the echo;be subtle, as though nonexistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28121]]></link><description><![CDATA[in motion be like water...at rest, like a mirror.resound like the echo;be subtle, as though nonexistent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm trying to push the other guys, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make an impression. It's nice for that to happen here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the progress they have made. I think we are a lot faster team now than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37663]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the progress they have made. I think we are a lot faster team now than we were last year. As a coach, I want them to be able to swim different events. That brings more value to the team and it will help them after high school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38924]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59887]]></link><description><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, isto argue disbelief in the dignity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, isto argue disbelief in the dignity of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14750]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hath an enemy called ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124]]></link><description><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds so wild would,     In the days of childhood,      Fling round my cradle       Their magic spells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a punishment   Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52270]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18793</guid></item></channel></rss>