<?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[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48845]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met at USC. They were studying cinema to become technical cameramen. They weren't real sailors picked up off the street, but they were very happy to play these roles in my film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be known more for my work than for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62369]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65690]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want to be forgotten even by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49399]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768</guid></item></channel></rss>