<?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[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal was to be here and then let the cards happen the way they happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal was to be here and then let the cards happen the way they happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459]]></link><description><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be struggling. These girls are so new, I'm still finding out what positions they can play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a great guitar player. He's worth the $5 alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a great guitar player. He's worth the $5 alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,   And on it put a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit goes his way, I think it can happen for him this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60031]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "thequiet acceptance of what is.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   Without ordinances, men would be much more mischievous and ungovernable than dogs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   Without ordinances, men would be much more mischievous and ungovernable than dogs and cattle. And few have come to the knowledge of the truth, but what have begun with holy practices and ordinances, and exercised themselves therein so long as they knew nothing more nor better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58258</guid></item></channel></rss>