<?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[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a static thing. The only people who do notchange their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those incemeteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have screwed the truth, but fewhave called her the next day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have screwed the truth, but fewhave called her the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That appearance on earth as an individual is the crisis in the history both of Christ Himself and of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7717]]></link><description><![CDATA[That appearance on earth as an individual is the crisis in the history both of Christ Himself and of the humanity He saves and leads. The ministry of Jesus, therefore, culminating in His death, is essential to Paul's whole thought. If in certain aspects of his theology it is the death that bulks most largely -- because it seemed to him to be the purest and most moving expression of what the whole life meant -- he is quite aware that the ethical impulse given by the example and teaching of Jesus is of the very stuff of the Christian life. He alludes to the Gospel story but sparingly, but those who study his teaching most closely become aware that he is himself acting and speaking all through under the impulse of the life and teaching of Jesus. If he refuses to "know Christ after the flesh," it means that he will not risk a harking back to the temporary conditions of the Galilean ministry when the Spirit of Christ is clearly leading out into new fields. The issues of that ministry have been gathered up in the new experience of "Christ in me", and that experience gives a living Christ, who leads ever onward those who will adventure with Him, and not a prophet of the past, whose words might pass into a dead tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12241]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fever is an expression of inner rage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57383]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fever is an expression of inner rage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24413</guid></item></channel></rss>