<?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[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33169]]></link><description><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm action was both justified and necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother   By yielding up thy body to my will,    Or else he must not only die the death,     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out      To ling'ring sufferance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30837]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet and couldn't resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13268]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28573]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45166]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19366]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13900]]></link><description><![CDATA[England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26163</guid></item></channel></rss>