<?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[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13908]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is different than being told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nothing but pure fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nothing but pure fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59411]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we're coming out of the shadows of football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we're coming out of the shadows of football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61080]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of this, we continue to be cautiously optimistic on developing Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it to the other team. They were hungrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61316]]></link><description><![CDATA[With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the roots are not removed during weeding, the weeds will grow again when the winds of Spring blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62813]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the roots are not removed during weeding, the weeds will grow again when the winds of Spring blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31960]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's power to thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645</guid></item></channel></rss>