<?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[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head   Fell carelessly behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got kind of sloppy in the fourth quarter. They shut off Matt Shakespeare but we were able to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got kind of sloppy in the fourth quarter. They shut off Matt Shakespeare but we were able to get plenty of looks at the cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a three, off-balance, on one leg and makes it. Congratulations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20402]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54592]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54514]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How some have been deposed, some slain in war,   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,    Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--     All murdered; for within the hollow crown      That rounds the mortal temples of a king       Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,        Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;         Allowing him a breath, a little scene,          To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;           Infusing him with self and vain conceit,            As if this flesh which walls about our life             Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,              Comes at the last, and with a little pin               Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!                Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood                 With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,                  Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;                   For you have but mistook me all this while.                    I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,                     Need friends. Subjected thus,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen   Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam    To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;     But never till to-night, never till now,      Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a pair of oars,   Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22192]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54293]]></link><description><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might,  Not stepping o'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42914]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might,  Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a lot of clams to harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an assist first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33306]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, we kept on doing it out of respect for him. It was just something he wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success as Grove City has had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32213]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to catch. I think Ted can win in November.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. [Fr., Il faut etre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. [Fr., Il faut etre bien heros pour l'etre aux yeux de son valet-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23781</guid></item></channel></rss>