<?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[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1965]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15177]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but a mule denies his family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632]]></link><description><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.  Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings--   This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown;   Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired of waiting and we're tired, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy weeps them out again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys believe in themselves, they believe in each other; the coaches believe in them; and they don't think they are out of any game, no matter what the score is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they move into young adulthood. Providing a simple, easy-to-use program for schools that reinforces character development benefits children at every age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117]]></link><description><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/94]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/94</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62143]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65802]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to winthat makes the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to winthat makes the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1218]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's none so blind as they that won't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's none so blind as they that won't see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4330</guid></item></channel></rss>