<?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[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</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[Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't played in 10 days. We've been inside a lot and practiced our hitting. Defensively, we're a better team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't played in 10 days. We've been inside a lot and practiced our hitting. Defensively, we're a better team than that. It was nice to get out. We were rusty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874]]></link><description><![CDATA[That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28205]]></link><description><![CDATA[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids who are put into the adult system re-offend quicker and more seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51427]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there is not a day,   The longest, not the twenty-first of June,    Sees half the business in a wicked way,     On which three single hours of moonshine smile--      And then she looks so modest all the while!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great tournament for us to get our feet wet and have the kids get some work against good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38210]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great tournament for us to get our feet wet and have the kids get some work against good ball teams. We still are trying to fit kids in at places and so we were able to see what they can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,   Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24612]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was pretty upset. I did get to talk to her in the ambulance, so that made things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56569</guid></item></channel></rss>