<?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[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.    'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes     The throned monarch better than his crown.      His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,       The attribute to awe and majesty,        Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;         But mercy is above this scept'red sway;          It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;           It is an attribute to God himself,            And earthly power doth then show likest God's             When mercy seasons justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matching that level of success is going to be very difficult, but the kids are working hard and hopefully, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matching that level of success is going to be very difficult, but the kids are working hard and hopefully, that pays off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! thou nurse of young desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,   Full on thy bloom,    Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight     Shall be thy doom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22154]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they lost Brodie they lost their leader and maybe lost some confidence throwing the ball. But obviously this year they've opened their offense up. They are taking their shots deep. Their receivers, I was impressed with them last year as a great group freshmen and now this year they've all made plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that he is indeed our Master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good basketball. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good basketball. This last month is going to be interesting for our league like it is for all leagues, but when it's all said and done, we'll have a number of teams that deserve attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13274]]></link><description><![CDATA[What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,  One crowded hour of glorious life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,  One crowded hour of glorious life   Is worth an age without a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item></channel></rss>