<?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[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, tomorrow is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men give advice; God gives guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men give advice; God gives guidance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have all the respect in the world for Franklin, they are very tough to beat at home and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have all the respect in the world for Franklin, they are very tough to beat at home and they always play us hard. We came out a little bit sluggish, but I reminded the girls what stakes they were playing for, and they responded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to affect any one service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item></channel></rss>