<?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[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a great thing to pursue,   Dies ere he knows it.    That low man goes on adding one to one,     His hundreds soon hit:      His high man, aiming at a million,       Misses an unit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans. Imagine. I have the beer can husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a person of interest at this point. We would like to speak to him about the fact we found a dead body in his house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15284]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they are expensive and have very high expectations for fast promotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33151]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they are expensive and have very high expectations for fast promotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us -- loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe -- yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24283]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17212]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed by March 12. It involves someone found in a forest, and it feels like the person is coming up on more than one charge. There's going to be lots of public controversy around this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,   And enterprises of great pitch and moment,    With this regard their currents turn awry,     And lose the name of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51263</guid></item></channel></rss>