<?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[When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1104]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the PhysicianAn old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the PhysicianAn old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing. This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little. And when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment. The Old Woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing. The Physician insisted on his claim, and. as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge. The Old Woman, standing up in the Court, argued: This man here speaks the truth in what he says; for I did promise to give him a sum of money if I should recover my sight: but if I continued blind, I was to give him nothing. Now he declares that I am healed. I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finishing stroke of all sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given!   She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven    That slid into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58333]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,  And touching all the darksome woods with light,   Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,    Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,     Drops down into the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,   Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958]]></link><description><![CDATA[On any other night, giving up 41 points is not a bad defensive effort, but when you only score 33 it's a moot point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and play a give-and-go type game because he's always flying and getting open ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both Gore and Bush have just bent over backward to try to reach out, try to appeal, to Hispanics and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both Gore and Bush have just bent over backward to try to reach out, try to appeal, to Hispanics and Latinos nationally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14246]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill   And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53330</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[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we're in it together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33358]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when they needed to to get that win in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in a house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in a house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother was upon her knees, awed by the knowledge that she was praying for them. And here and there in the New Testament, we blunder in on Christ and find Him on His knees; and, once at least, ere we can escape, cannot but overhear Him pleading our names. "Neither pray I for these alone," that is, for Peter and John and the rest, "but for those who will believe through them"-- that is, for you and me. Hush! the Lord Christ is praying for you! And what is it He asks for us? That we be given such a spirit of unity and brotherliness and Christlikeness that people, coming upon us, will look at us, and look again, and then from us to Jesus Christ, seeking the explanation of us there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23212</guid></item></channel></rss>