<?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[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51292]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn!  Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn!  Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;   Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty hockey, and made some great saves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34312]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and other organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, the power of Godliness. Though now we are fallen upon another method, we have turned all religion into faith, and our faith is nothing but the production of interest or disputing; it is adhering to a party and a wrangling against all the world beside--and when it is asked of what religion he is, we understand the meaning to be what faction does he follow, what are the articles of his sect, not what is the manner of his life: and if men be zealous for their party and that interest, then they are precious men, though otherwise they be covetous as the grave, factious as Dathan, schismatical as Korah, or proud as the fallen angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Gruden really likes to prepare for what's going on now this season and I can understand that. Right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Gruden really likes to prepare for what's going on now this season and I can understand that. Right now, I'm just trying to do my best by watching and absorbing what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the image of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the image of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item></channel></rss>