<?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[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having that guy in the lineup makes a difference. He's going to scare some people. I was definitely surprised by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having that guy in the lineup makes a difference. He's going to scare some people. I was definitely surprised by the double. He missed so much time and on his first at-bat ? boom! He's a special player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956]]></link><description><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief doth howl and rave,    And April weeps--but, O ye hours!     Follow with May's fairest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things aren't moving as fast as they were at this point last year. I just feel a lot more comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things aren't moving as fast as they were at this point last year. I just feel a lot more comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   And Shakespeare weeps with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I was educated, I'd be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such root she took,   And--like a sunflower by a brook,    With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11274]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough. It's very tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough. It's very tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12351]]></link><description><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27439]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44386</guid></item></channel></rss>