<?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[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60646]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63323]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through the rye    . . . .     Gin a body meet a body      Comin' through the rye,       Gin a body kiss a body        Need a body cry?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19524]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26442]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's cocaptain, offensive guard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's cocaptain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of recorded time,   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools    The way to dusty death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18268]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf:   Content to know and be unknown:    Whole in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item></channel></rss>