<?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[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59402]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be in heaven   Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52343]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve been struggling with for so long is a great benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37067]]></link><description><![CDATA[great news. A half-million dollars toward a problem weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve been struggling with for so long is a great benefit to out city, especially around the old Wehadkee site and in Knoxville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273]]></link><description><![CDATA[God oft hath a great share in a little house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is heaven always at peace. [Lat., Nec sidera pacem  Semper habent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is heaven always at peace. [Lat., Nec sidera pacem  Semper habent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088]]></link><description><![CDATA[[More than 8,000 pair of underwear are headed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, thanks to the Dave Ryan In the Morning Show on Minneapolis, Minn., radio station KDWB. The drive was coordinated through WMSI-102.9 (Miss 103) in Jackson.] We got them in all shapes and sizes, ... Boxers, briefs, bikinis, thongs. We made this a fun thing, but underwear is one of those things ... people kept saying they needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The Vine, boys, the Vine!    The mother of the mighty Wine,     A roamer is she      O'er wall and tree       And sometimes very good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of twosovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of twosovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in allwe say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off oursubjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48768]]></link><description><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,   That gall'd not while it glitter'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is that as we enter the new year, the big caps continue to dominate the market as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is that as we enter the new year, the big caps continue to dominate the market as they have for almost two years now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,  Will rise in majesty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,  Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for a long time that felt like there were still possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely inn, and near approaches   The subject of our watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4915</guid></item></channel></rss>