<?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[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These weeks are packed full of events for her. It's a good time to meet with people and local organizations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38738]]></link><description><![CDATA[These weeks are packed full of events for her. It's a good time to meet with people and local organizations that don't send people out to Washington, but still have a need to connect with their member of Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3102]]></link><description><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more they drink the more they thirst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will help stability in Afghanistan and the whole region ... and also in the reconstruction efforts of our people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was happy when this happened. There were girls that played varsity last year that aren't getting that chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32832]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was happy when this happened. There were girls that played varsity last year that aren't getting that chance now. But the kids seem to be getting along pretty well and they're playing really good golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is merely history's first draft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is merely history's first draft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery usually follows a law of diminishing returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every historian discloses a new horizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every historian discloses a new horizon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goals are dreams with deadlines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goals are dreams with deadlines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48988]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk   The hopes of all men and of every nation;    Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:      But to return,--Get very drunk; and when       You wake with headache, you shall see what then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35940</guid></item></channel></rss>