<?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[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None in the village hears him go;    E'en chanticleer keeps very still,     For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39018]]></link><description><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, which bears the better temper,   Between two horses, which doth bear him best,    Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,     I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;      But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,       Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go out and play hard for four quarters and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd have been if I hadn't seen the match,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9052]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the rich colors and the rich idea. It's a very deep idea. It's how nature connects all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the rich colors and the rich idea. It's a very deep idea. It's how nature connects all of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of labor is to gain leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37856]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ball better. We have come a long way from the beginning of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said they understand that there is a pervasive negative attitude in the county, ... There is a lot of criticism. The focus seems to be on criticizing county government as opposed to, at least sometimes, looking at the good things that are going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing are painful but in our judgment they're also necessary if the airline is going to survive. If there's an industry or business that's in worse shape than the airline industry, I don't know what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for "the Church" but for "the whole inhabited world". The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item></channel></rss>