<?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[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9001]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wings of angels, tears of saintswon't bring you back to me(about her son's suicide)(He will come back to her.. the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wings of angels, tears of saintswon't bring you back to me(about her son's suicide)(He will come back to her.. the soul isdeathless).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612]]></link><description><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11623]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37570]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and down my bench and see a lot of guys who have had gold medals around their necks. That's a big advantage in a game like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57386]]></link><description><![CDATA[One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66154]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3941]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,   Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47151]]></link><description><![CDATA[This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last3 presidential elections do that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we win, we still have a chance to win the district championship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what happened to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item></channel></rss>