<?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[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made tons of big pitches. It is hard to believe that a guy making his first start would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made tons of big pitches. It is hard to believe that a guy making his first start would be so sharp. You do not find a guy throwing eight innings on his first start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  [John Bunyan] had to live through that obscure night -- "wide, vast, and lonely" -- which fell upon St. John of the Cross before; like him, he knew that grace would enter "the dark caverns where the senses live". In the meantime, Bunyan tossed to and fro, as it were between heaven and hell. It has been said that he paints too dark a picture of his moral condition when a young man, that he exaggerates his wickedness at this period, and afterwards wrestles with phantoms of his vivid imagination. But spiritual sins, though not so obvious as those that are sensual, may be just as real; and Bunyan's intensity of feeling and expression arose from the intensity of his spiritual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue display   Less bright than they,    But when the bare and wintry woods we see,     What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10425]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows,    Most barren with best using.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/960]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so  Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56671]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so  Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,   And smile, smile, smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more likely to be brought in by the illegal movement of birds and bird products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41839]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more likely to be brought in by the illegal movement of birds and bird products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why,   And marvel, out in the cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66195]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, we'll probably be trading (the record) back and forth all week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, we'll probably be trading (the record) back and forth all week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men pass away, but their deeds abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men pass away, but their deeds abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is my piñata. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is my piñata.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item></channel></rss>