<?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[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new building will have eight classrooms, with a faculty lounge, offices and a library. The facility will have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new building will have eight classrooms, with a faculty lounge, offices and a library. The facility will have the latest technology with audio enhancement equipment, smart boards and computers in every room. There will also be a small computer lab as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do they trust on the way to move forward. The legacy of Sharon will live on, irrespective of who succeeds him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single soul is a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single soul is a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teachesyou a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the infrastructure that has decayed, deteriorated and been obliterated has to be rebuilt. The situation that created the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38479]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the infrastructure that has decayed, deteriorated and been obliterated has to be rebuilt. The situation that created the great players was unfettered access to courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem,   Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'    Like the poor cat i' th' adage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28734]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3307]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there really isn't any threat of inflation out there. Remember all those terrible surprises we used to get on Fridays? It's about time the bond market got a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13748]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the enemy of creativeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be rich than stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be rich than stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, isstronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21501</guid></item></channel></rss>