<?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[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole   A gentle tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell with new runners because they get injured so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is clear yet ... the man cannot remain in these conditions ... his health is deteriorating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is clear yet ... the man cannot remain in these conditions ... his health is deteriorating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hare and the TortoiseA hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hare and the TortoiseA hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38198]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47644</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[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would bring him on to some confession   Of his true state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420]]></link><description><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team had ever won silver. We came through there, and we think we can do it again at the Olympics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39144]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there playing football. That's what you want to do. Just be out there on the field. Whatever position they put me at, I'll play it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've done a lot of camps and Ryan is great with the kids. He's one of the best coaches in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35827]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've done a lot of camps and Ryan is great with the kids. He's one of the best coaches in Connecticut. No one even comes close. In three days I've seen a lot of improvement with the kids, where with some other camps you don't see any improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684]]></link><description><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of win which they already had... The "Gospels" came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/242]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688</guid></item></channel></rss>