<?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[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please quiet down?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32511]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months on some beaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy to replace Hossa. But, if there's one guy to do it, Heatley's one of the best young players in the league and he's a guy to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those.  The bursting tears my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those.  The bursting tears my heart declare;   Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato perit sanguine Cappadocis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotion is energy in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emotion is energy in motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27602]]></link><description><![CDATA[At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Heaven overarches earth and sea,   Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be - Please God -- where there is no more sea    Nor barren wilderness. Heaven overarches you and me,   And all earth's gardens and her braves.  Look up with me, until we see  The day break and the shadows flee.  What though to-night wrecks you and me,     If so to-morrow saves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;  You smile but you shall wear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;  You smile but you shall wear   Orange blossoms in your hair, Marguerite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would have done as they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to have a situation where Coach Chavis and Coach Slade say I want you to be on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to have a situation where Coach Chavis and Coach Slade say I want you to be on the best receiver and lock him down, stay on him the whole game, don't let him touch the ball, smother him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item></channel></rss>