<?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[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64220]]></link><description><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63682]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57401]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without excuse   Who steals a common from the goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing, and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of the clamours of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54425]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand   On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;    And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,     For roses to stay after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41075]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weening is not measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weening is not measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38924]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8150]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know if it would be feasible for the bonding company to take over (Smith & Johnson). There may not be any employee infrastructure to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4176]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able to-and like to-teach kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned right into me with the right front (wheel). Now I've been Cheever-ed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man hates no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man hates no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27022</guid></item></channel></rss>