<?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[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4477]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483]]></link><description><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44613]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.  "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,   'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588]]></link><description><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live ye, he says, I flee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live ye, he says, I flee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28473]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</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[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44020]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty fun to win those two games. It was a good feeling in the room. It's definitely something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty fun to win those two games. It was a good feeling in the room. It's definitely something we'd like to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. There are reckless drivers at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55517]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry in haste, repent at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry in haste, repent at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51096</guid></item></channel></rss>