<?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[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico that long ago and eventually came up into the American Southwest (4,000 years ago).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum  Typographia   Ars artium omnium    Conservatrix     Hic primum inventa      Circa annum mccccxl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien deutschen Rhein.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on the ground. We have offered our center and resources to the state of Texas ... There's a good clearinghouse in Austin (and) we have offered to assist them in any way we can...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3591]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune,  Familiar as a cradle-song   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune,  Familiar as a cradle-song   With sleep-compelling croon;    Yet though I'm filled with music,     As choirs of summer birds,      "I cannot sing the old songs"--       I do not know the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an event that is growing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31942]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an event that is growing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9562]]></link><description><![CDATA[... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20862]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bed is the poor man's opera ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bed is the poor man's opera]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that God the Son could not, absolutely speaking, have become incarnate by a non-virginal conception, any more than I should wish to deny that God might, absolutely speaking, have redeemed mankind without becoming incarnate at all; it is always unwise to place limits to the power of God. What we can see is that both an incarnation and a virginal conception were thoroughly appropriate to the needs and circumstances of the case and were more "natural", in the sense of more appropriate, than the alternatives... In practice, denial of the virginal conception or inability to see its relevance almost always goes with an inadequate understanding of the Incarnation and of the Christian religion in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49404</guid></item></channel></rss>