<?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[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just aboutunimaginable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21856]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just aboutunimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45236]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,   Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though I speak without a tongue.    Nought but one thing can confound me,     Many voices joining round me,      Then I fret, and rave, and gabble,       Like the labourers of Babel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I played center field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I played center field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's for sure. That's a tough format.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construction goes on. the court hasn't revoked or modified any permit, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construction goes on. the court hasn't revoked or modified any permit,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since that the truest issue of thy throne    By his own interdiction stands accursed     And does blaspheme his breed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit;  Yet am I noble as the adversary  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit;  Yet am I noble as the adversary   I come to cope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144</guid></item></channel></rss>