<?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[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For the gods see everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24129]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1837]]></link><description><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's between Duquesne and Kansas State, but I know Pitt loves the kid a lot. He'll probably make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's between Duquesne and Kansas State, but I know Pitt loves the kid a lot. He'll probably make a decision in a week or so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love sincerer than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31076]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as we wanted. We didn't reach our goal. This year our goal was to improve our record from last year to where we are now. To do that took teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187</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[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63982]]></link><description><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item></channel></rss>