<?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[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In fact, it got me mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do really good together. It will be kind of like this the whole year where one of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do really good together. It will be kind of like this the whole year where one of us can go in and the other can close, and I don't think it will be a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66802]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22358]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back onmy bass playing abilities.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best part about it. There aren't a lot of eighth-grade teams that get to play out there. Playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30354]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best part about it. There aren't a lot of eighth-grade teams that get to play out there. Playing at Grande in junior high will definitely get you ready to play there on Fridays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a theme park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32624]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name   Robs me of that which not enriches him    And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9405]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars,   And night infolds the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61986]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61789]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not;  For where I am I would not be,   And where I would be I can not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball very well even though we played good defense. They got too many hits. I think we [also] hit the ball pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072</guid></item></channel></rss>