<?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 blind bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kinda tough because it seem like everyone is running for second place. I have been trying to chip away all season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2757]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?  (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,   Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,    Which, as it seems, make thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22622]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it wasnot that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57827]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63256]]></link><description><![CDATA[America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29193]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in youth football, but he's a bit undersized for high school football. He has the potential of becoming a real good lineman. He just needs to continue to work on his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19852]]></link><description><![CDATA[When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most  If you have made each guest forget   That he himself is not the host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools   Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.    This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:     'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count my many blessings.Today, I will do my work honestly.Today, I will be kind to every living creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11988]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,  Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58024]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,  Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;   Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,    But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17097</guid></item></channel></rss>