<?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 eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far away,   Despising doleful dumps.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to make excuses. I screwed up, and probably cost the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43942]]></link><description><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end,  The consummation to the inward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end,  The consummation to the inward sense   Of beauty apprehended from without,    I still call love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You come to Nebraska to win championships, and when you don't, the question is, 'Why, why, why?' ... So it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You come to Nebraska to win championships, and when you don't, the question is, 'Why, why, why?' ... So it's not like we're a program that just found itself in this position. We were planning on being in this position at the beginning of the year. Our plan is to finish it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.   And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . .   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They long to be / Close to you / On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9066]]></link><description><![CDATA[His right and left brain are talking to each other more these days. The one is an atheist Marxist and the other isa Christian socialist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes into sevens and turn things around in a positive way. It's nothing we're dwelling on. But it's something we have to get turned around and fix as we move on with the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about finalizing our new location in the Greenville area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item></channel></rss>