<?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[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) have not pulled any business from GM over our support of MADD.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47459]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47722]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its tree, Juniper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26370]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its tree, Juniper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two singles. That was the best way to get success, I put our four best kids in the top four spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.(7:3).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, as if   He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was October 15, 1986. Keith had stayed home from school with his dad to help with the first full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was October 15, 1986. Keith had stayed home from school with his dad to help with the first full day of corn harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11549]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168]]></link><description><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27939]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015</guid></item></channel></rss>