<?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[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49299</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[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27564]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit,  Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,   Watching o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14260]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit,  Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,   Watching o'er the dewy valleys,    Like a good king near his end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd   The itch, on purpose to be scratched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has said to the senator he disagrees with him. He believes he's going to be a good ally in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has said to the senator he disagrees with him. He believes he's going to be a good ally in the Senate to enact the kind of property tax relief that has eluded this governor for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18170]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ... and credit unions are known for being friendlier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it\'s a dichotomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   This Gospel accords perfectly with the account which St. Paul gives of his preaching in the last address to the Ephesian elders, and it contains all the elements which are to be found in all the sermons and in all the notices of St. Paul's preaching in the Acts, except only the answers to the objections against the Gospel, and the proofs of its truth, which would be manifestly out of place in writing to Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220]]></link><description><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over by the animals,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058]]></link><description><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   While Folly glares at length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058</guid></item></channel></rss>