<?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[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once they see what we can do here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and hold   Communion with their Lord.   For food He give His flesh,   He bids us drink His blood; Amazing favor! matchless grace   Of our descending God!   This holy bread and wine   Maintains our fainting breath, By union with our living Lord   And interest in His death.   Let all our powers be join'd   His glorious name to raise; Pleasure and love fill every mind,   And every voice be praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character of a person is in direct proportion to hiscommitment to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character of a person is in direct proportion to hiscommitment to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be solved,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19215]]></link><description><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because those costs are considered discretionary and all we have to cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20353]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom and flexibility. If Iran doesn't help, Russia won't be able to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28852</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[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42532]]></link><description><![CDATA[An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57708]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke   When round the ruins of their ancient oak    The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play,     And games and carols closed the busy day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I decided to make my own pizza sauce from my own homegrown produce during the following canning season, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31138]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I decided to make my own pizza sauce from my own homegrown produce during the following canning season, ... It took a bit of experimenting to come up with just the right amount of all the ingredients . . . but I finally hit upon a blend that the folks around here seem to relish. The secret is the herbs: Don't be afraid to put more of 'em in than you think you shouldl That's what gives my sauce its hearty flavor and character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57174]]></link><description><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of alarms,   Than reign in this horrible place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56494</guid></item></channel></rss>