<?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[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42549]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21555]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374]]></link><description><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in control at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in control at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has market appeal, in publicizing the product ... that's something that Stephen King was able to forgo by going directly to the public, based on his reputation, ... Most artists, and especially new authors, don't have that ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8103]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, and hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19003]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65912]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28614]]></link><description><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death,  But have belief that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death,  But have belief that every little breath   Will stay with you for an eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item></channel></rss>