<?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[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60078]]></link><description><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47337]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations than any other economist in the country. He's a wonderful politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - November 11, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47859]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19229]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60128</guid></item></channel></rss>