<?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[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day extremely sick by chance   And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64906]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's much more competition with lots of different kinds of arts, and there's a lot more fear of the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,  Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55709]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game because we have one on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66564]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21633]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;  There's nothing level in our cursed natures   But direct villainy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40957]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The contests of disputing friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without discipline, there's no life at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42667</guid></item></channel></rss>