<?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[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30459]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he jumps in and he expected to work into the seventh every night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to come back May 1, and then we'll study it and we'll sit down with the president and university officials and decide what we're going to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;  For the day never comes when it'll du   To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735]]></link><description><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled tough. Windsor is a well-coached team. We knew they were going to come in and just get after us. In order to prevent that, we've got to make sure we're even more prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does..."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, / And ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times asyou think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. .. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If itdoesn't, it is of no use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have enough schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have enough schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it easy. Let the women and children go first ... No one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a part of growth, unfortunately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. You just can't allow something like that to happen at the end of the game. Against Falmouth, I really like the effort we put forth against one of the elite teams in the area. We played right with them for a long stretch of the game, but we eventually just got tired and they took advantage of our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long way before this (race) is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long way before this (race) is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item></channel></rss>