<?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[Sing a song of sixpence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing a song of sixpence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to have been here to see us get to the World Cup,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29763]]></link><description><![CDATA[If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428]]></link><description><![CDATA[In imagination, there's no limitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite their not-too-distant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite their not-too-distant affinity to the Quakers, they think they will be heard for their much speaking. And since their organists too are equally reluctant to let any liturgical action pass without a ruminative obbligato on the Swell manual, congregations are subjected to unrelieved noise during a service which may well have begun with the reading of the sentence, "Be still, and know that I am God.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in prison and then thrown back on the street and have no training for anything they go right back into the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is like a bowl of Jelly Beans... Good to the bottom of the bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23211]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is like a bowl of Jelly Beans... Good to the bottom of the bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31776]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36671]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I had better get the book out before people said I was just reporting the news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;    But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,     Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;      But when they should endure the bloody spur,       They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades        Sink in the trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,   I died last night of my physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who build beneath the stars build too low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the sea; on shore remain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the sea; on shore remain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This character is just Annandale football, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33639]]></link><description><![CDATA[This character is just Annandale football,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' said a little child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36288]]></link><description><![CDATA[`But the Emperor has nothing on at all!' said a little child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too early. We wanted to get the most out of every phase, like putting out a record on an independent label and playing small clubs, then doing bigger records and bigger tours. I think that just made us better prepared for this whole experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4179]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4179</guid></item></channel></rss>