<?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[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It is a power league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work schedule of 12 to 16 hours a day leaves him an in exhaustive state, and just a few drinks -- or any drink -- are too much to handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19058]]></link><description><![CDATA[One often calms one's grief by recounting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work hasn't been more challenging. Leadership challenges can rub emotions raw and strain relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiftly our pleasures glide away, Our hearts recall the distant day  With many sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swiftly our pleasures glide away, Our hearts recall the distant day  With many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44945]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's help is better than early rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9788]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53138]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40577</guid></item></channel></rss>