<?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[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day;  But when we are certain of sorrow in store   Why do we always arrange for more?    Brothers and sisters I bid you beware     Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57471]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the one who dries your tears is the one who makes you cry, who do you run to? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28157]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the one who dries your tears is the one who makes you cry, who do you run to?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made poetry a mere mechanic art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense and hockey will be here for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37907]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30048]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With tooth and nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With tooth and nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.  [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.  [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.   Font plus que force ni que rage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The why is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The why is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own escape from him in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto you to fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42888</guid></item></channel></rss>