<?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[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, I again appear in Thy presence the wretched misspender of another year which Thy mercy has allowed me. O Lord let me not sink into total depravity, look down upon me, and rescue me at last from the captivity of sin. Impart to me good resolutions, and give me strength and perseverance to perform them. Take not from me Thy Holy Spirit, but grant that I may redeem the time lost, and that by temperance and diligence, by sincere repentance and faithful obedience I may finally attain everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off, give it to her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord to You we give thanksthat in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18178]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord to You we give thanksthat in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study nature, not books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study nature, not books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not do what you would undo if caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.  So that no wonder waits him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2227]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you don't come out and guard them, they are going to shoot 3s. We really struggled defensively, and honestly, that's the first time we've struggled defensively this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love (Robin). He never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57699]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64242</guid></item></channel></rss>