<?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[Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only disability in life is a bad attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62919]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49991]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,   Survey our empire, and behold our home!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all light, all influence, all fate,   Nothing to him falls early or too late.    Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain is fraught:    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50443]]></link><description><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign up for the rewards card. Those are potential repeat customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25229]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35390</guid></item></channel></rss>