<?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[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weening is not measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weening is not measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4073]]></link><description><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271</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[The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65767]]></link><description><![CDATA[We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58628]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la fuente.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their red it never dies;    But Phyllida, my Phillida!     Her colour comes and goes;      It trembles to a lily,--       It wavers to a rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33784]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37747]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans. Imagine. I have the beer can husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58912</guid></item></channel></rss>