<?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[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18584]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is treason to mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is treason to mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it because we love it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it because we love it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup who can take the ball deep; that pitch that Turner hit got up in the jet stream and just took off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms,   The lightning and the gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55731]]></link><description><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24508]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65260]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53130]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22361]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520</guid></item></channel></rss>