<?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[March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37821]]></link><description><![CDATA[March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the hill. The rain we got should help set up local farmers for the spring season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull mother makes a scald head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21737]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes a success of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39550]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,   Man, take thine old cloake about thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46439]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing you can't spell will ever work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing you can't spell will ever work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57663]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they had that one big inning. We are still playing well right now; we should be happy to be 9-2. We beat these guys two out of three and now we need to look ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25199]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have made half of those attempts, we would have won by 10.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until I see the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicae causae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly interested in 1960s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michelle is a very talented Irish dancer. Chris Foster has the same influences as mine. He's mostly interested in 1960s rock n' roll. The youngest member of the band is not yet 30 and the oldest is approaching 50, so we have a broad range of musical experience. We all bring those different influences in when we play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21918]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Sir To. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Sir To.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12545]]></link><description><![CDATA[False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just random stuff that people need done, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just random stuff that people need done,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530]]></link><description><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21851</guid></item></channel></rss>