<?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[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39740]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get this federal fiscal house in order. ... I would give him a much higher grade if he had vetoed just one (spending) bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures to pieces.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28870]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8290]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13892]]></link><description><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's going to be a loan officer. I'm real proud of him and what he's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6113]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48458]]></link><description><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13237]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward by evidence-based benchmarks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why,   And marvel, out in the cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item></channel></rss>