<?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[Love makes all hard hearts gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes all hard hearts gentle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes out there and doesn't back down. He blocks, he catches the ball, he runs with the ball - he does everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565]]></link><description><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,   Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48394]]></link><description><![CDATA[God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always gets it done. If it's not scoring, it's assists, it's steals, and he always has a big night rebounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers,  From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,   Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,    Shriller than trumpets under the Law,     Now a sermon and now a prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7461]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...  Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...  Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...  Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11847]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a disaster in the making, ... This is the casino we discussed with Steve and he said that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36853]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a disaster in the making, ... This is the casino we discussed with Steve and he said that it would not happen. It seems to be happening! The way to stop it is for Interior to say they are not satisfied with the environmental impact report. Can you get him to stop this one asap? They are moving fast. Thanks Italia. This is a direct assault on our guys, Saginaw Chippewa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35327]]></link><description><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it starting to move up significantly, it's very difficult for them psychologically to move away from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old cat sports not with her prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49126]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old cat sports not with her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241</guid></item></channel></rss>