<?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[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37465]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238]]></link><description><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--   He lived from all attainder of suspects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the educated are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we discourse   The freezing hours away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20664]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a month in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[anonymous fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860]]></link><description><![CDATA[anonymous fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300 000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61076]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is its own defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give money, spend yourself with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give money, spend yourself with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4334</guid></item></channel></rss>