<?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[Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey coat,   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starred forget-me-nots smile sweetly, Ring, bluebells, ring!  Winning eye and heart completely,   Sing, robin, sing!    All among the reeds and rushes,     Where the brook its music hushes,      Bright the caloposon blushes,__       Laugh, O murmuring Spring!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56181]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27112]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful about the balance so we have a mix of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27772]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the Adam from the fall;   In you the Future as the Past is given--    Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--     Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,      Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will the deed and the plan   Be judged by the motive that lieth below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want that. I wanted a group of other veterans I could talk to or maybe a military doctor who was there (Iraq) who can help me out or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49542]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53363]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30118]]></link><description><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19109]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly a lot deeper. Last year our No. 1 through 7 runners were set and there was a line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly a lot deeper. Last year our No. 1 through 7 runners were set and there was a line between 7 and 8. Now we have 1, 2 and 3 running together, and then everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. [Fr., C'est une ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. [Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui n'en que faire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546</guid></item></channel></rss>