<?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[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up and didn't fold under pressure, ... That says a lot for the girls who are young and don't have much experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655]]></link><description><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32757]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. Now, by this time, I thought Ron was just full of B.S., that he couldn't possibly know where we were going. We were on little, two-lane, unmarked roads. But then, on the next turn, we pull right up in front of Florida State's stadium. It was incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52013]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27640]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2511]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matter what happened at the other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to give people a quick start back to recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but we're taking care of that. It's a challenge for all of us to travel to Bowie only so far as we can't just walk out the back door and start working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item></channel></rss>