<?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[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4293]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as he sends you to the inferno in Iraq and exposes you to death in your land because of his crusader war against Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17709]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3001]]></link><description><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achilles absent, was Achilles still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achilles absent, was Achilles still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap has only widened in the immediate years. In 1980, China and India were comparable on data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap has only widened in the immediate years. In 1980, China and India were comparable on data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is a roost for every bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25454]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is a roost for every bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,   A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merchant has no country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merchant has no country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50372]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10186]]></link><description><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31412]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it looked like I was going to be the first one gone and never coming back, ... But they saw something they liked and they stuck with me and gave me a bunch of opportunities to prove myself. And finally it's coming to pass that what they thought about me was right and that I can play in this league and be a player on this team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,  Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant   As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own business. We do it to encourage college students to consider the option of becoming entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343</guid></item></channel></rss>