<?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[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;  Dresses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;  Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,   Dresses in which to do nothing at all;    Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;     All of them different in color and shape.      Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,       Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,        Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,  Which they upon the adverse faction want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training session, so we'll wait until we see how our blokes pull up tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. .. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If itdoesn't, it is of no use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores  This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23999]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores  This gain of our best glory shall be sent,   T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?    What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident     May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/416]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good as a play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth like a blanketthat always leavesyour feet coldscreenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score in bunches, but luckily, Darin got hot and brought us back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is growing in leaps and bounds and we feel good about that. We want to expand on that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is growing in leaps and bounds and we feel good about that. We want to expand on that and help the city keep growing in a positive way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dave has done an outstanding job as head coach of this club and we expect that to continue for years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dave has done an outstanding job as head coach of this club and we expect that to continue for years to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47897</guid></item></channel></rss>