<?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[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound,   Our deafness each one laughs about.    Then reason's light with falling ray     Doth but a trembling flicker cast.      Honor to age, ye children pay!       Alas! my fifty years are past!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really a mix of our two cultures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39362]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really a mix of our two cultures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are obsolete children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of his wife and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59358</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/6738]]></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   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3681]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark of the 3.1-mile 5K), ... When you hit (the bottom of the hill) you've got to go, or you're going to lose time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3594</guid></item></channel></rss>