<?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[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil habit Oft covers a good man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil habit Oft covers a good man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never want to string a game like that together, but it shows so much composure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30746]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never want to string a game like that together, but it shows so much composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to wipe this one away as quickly as possible. I only threw 79 pitches, so I feel like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30708]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to wipe this one away as quickly as possible. I only threw 79 pitches, so I feel like I'll be healthy for the Yankees. ... You always hope for the opportunity. So, we'll see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood I could. This is where everybody's missing the boat. They don't have a clue about what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34660]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29729]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender love, then wouldst thou care nought for thine own convenience or inconvenience, but wouldst rather rejoice at trouble brought upon thee, because the love of Jesus maketh a man to despise himself. He that loveth Jesus and is inwardly true and free from inordinate affections, is able to turn himself readily unto God, and to rise above himself in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11389]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house   When our gudeman's awa.   - William Julius Mickle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man drives, but the Creator holds the reins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man drives, but the Creator holds the reins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36012]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   Nor care beyond to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911</guid></item></channel></rss>