<?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[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet again the politicians and bosses won and the people of New Jersey lose. The judges have totally thrown out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet again the politicians and bosses won and the people of New Jersey lose. The judges have totally thrown out the rights of the people in this state to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54706]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</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[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868]]></link><description><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are some of those tuna that have higher levels, then that will come out through the testing by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32904]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are some of those tuna that have higher levels, then that will come out through the testing by means of an average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have two bites at the local apple before you have to go to court, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have two bites at the local apple before you have to go to court,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deserves it. He's someone that's going to take players on and not be afraid of the big scene and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33940]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deserves it. He's someone that's going to take players on and not be afraid of the big scene and I think that's what Bruce Arena is looking for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33021]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still waiting to hear what resources are needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4034]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14605]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14605</guid></item></channel></rss>