<?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[The sun is new each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is new each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have transitioned the company where it could be a brand for decades to come,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a family is life's greatest blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a family is life's greatest blessing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8897]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent - that whole new-wave look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancta Maria ad Nives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It defies understanding to say that if we're building only three or four new schools, we may not need buses. That's simply not realistic. Until that kind of projection is made, a table of this sort is not complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man never dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17814]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really judge it by wins. My personal goal is a .500 season. I don't set that goal for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really judge it by wins. My personal goal is a .500 season. I don't set that goal for them. Their goal is to give me everything they have and learn as much as they can this season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. [Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19117]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. [Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six or seven months ago, I didn't think I'd be up here talking about a new basketball coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six or seven months ago, I didn't think I'd be up here talking about a new basketball coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple glitches in the beginning with the machines. But there were no major problems. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple glitches in the beginning with the machines. But there were no major problems. I think the only major issue was intimidation with the machines. Some people tried to make it harder than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of a great love, one is courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46302</guid></item></channel></rss>