<?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[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17565]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36864]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win the Battle of Midway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this new system, the star players have to be star players. If they aren't, you are probably not going to be successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smiling face is half the meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smiling face is half the meal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11123]]></link><description><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der Decke streckt,  Dem bleiben die Fusse unbedeckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22624]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is quite certain: he too has his time and not more than his time. One day others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is quite certain: he too has his time and not more than his time. One day others will come who will do the same things better. And some day he will have been completely forgotten--even if he should have built the pyramids or the St. Gotthard tunnel or invented atomic fission. And one thing is even more certain: whether the achievement of a man's life is great or small, significant or insignificant, he will one day stand before his eternal judge, and everything that he has done and performed will be no more than a mole hill, and then he will have nothing better to do than hope for something he has not earned: not for a crown, but quite simply for gracious judgment which he has not deserved. That is the only thing that will count then, achievement or not. "My kindness shall not depart from you." By this man lives. By this alone can he live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21799]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. thanks to Dana Bidne -William Jennings Bryan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23817]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/357]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33239]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't accept just taking the series. We want to come out tomorrow and get the sweep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't accept just taking the series. We want to come out tomorrow and get the sweep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item></channel></rss>