<?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[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was   "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28083]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are also laws to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an exciting addition to our kids program. Shari's is already a favorite destination for kids, as they get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33147]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an exciting addition to our kids program. Shari's is already a favorite destination for kids, as they get to choose their meal from their own fold-out laminated menu just like mom and dad, plus every child receives a Free Cookie-on-a-Stick to end their meal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48963]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We even incorporated songs which were sung in Israel during World War 2 against Hitler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We even incorporated songs which were sung in Israel during World War 2 against Hitler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of caring is heroic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of caring is heroic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53520]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1825]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious to get out there -- this was their first night -- and they didn't get to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For their analogy to work, Jim would be defending Best Buy, not suing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41815]]></link><description><![CDATA[For their analogy to work, Jim would be defending Best Buy, not suing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41815</guid></item></channel></rss>