<?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[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51463]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some neighboring nation,   Taking advantage of our misery,    Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,     To beat us down, the which are down already;      And make a conquest of unhappy,       Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57595]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32344]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be considered a breakthrough unless it first seemed a little ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are in line to go to the bathroom outside the butler (portable) buildings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are in line to go to the bathroom outside the butler (portable) buildings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket to win the game, so I had to put the ball in the basket. And backboard? No! I was trying to find the quickest way to put the ball in the basket, period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be good to be 6-1 (against Minnesota). It's a hard-working team over there, and they did what they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32956]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be good to be 6-1 (against Minnesota). It's a hard-working team over there, and they did what they had to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11034]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in a rush to get divorced because of this health coverage issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of man could navigate   The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss    Securely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/87]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/87</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51269]]></link><description><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been very disappointed in the last couple of years, no question about that. But we were determined that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been very disappointed in the last couple of years, no question about that. But we were determined that we would recruit and turn it back around, and we look forward to the next couple of seasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46782]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40205]]></link><description><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item></channel></rss>