<?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[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can we remember this with our actions?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich'sbutt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence.It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich'sbutt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence.It turns out he only took up residence in 95.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43928]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake.making that mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake.making that mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have that right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress made it one upon my cheek:   She is so hot because the meat is cold;    The meat is cold because you come not home;     You come not home because you have no stomach;      You have no stomach, having broke your fast;       But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,        Are penitent for your default to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10142</guid></item></channel></rss>