<?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[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,   He form'd this gnat who built the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;  Till at his second bidding darkness fled,   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two years ago ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36060]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two years ago where they found out the people who play fantasy football actually are their season-ticket holders. So now we've turned a corner from, 'Is this gambling?' to the realization that, 'Hey, this a fun hobby played by a lot of our fans.' And for the most part, it's bragging rights -- not money -- that people are after in fantasy football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such a pretty type of clothing. I can imagine people liking it and it's very wearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32080]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such a pretty type of clothing. I can imagine people liking it and it's very wearable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good workemen are seldome rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good workemen are seldome rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31236]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out the bad cells before they can introduce the good ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35331]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19891]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27858]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58058]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blake is getting himself back in the swing. His last two rounds have been 39 and 38. Michael struggled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blake is getting himself back in the swing. His last two rounds have been 39 and 38. Michael struggled in the last match, shooting 48, but he came back [Monday] with a 41.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day,  The swallow felt the deepest grief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58434]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day,  The swallow felt the deepest grief,   And longed to give her Lord relief,    And chirped when any near would come.     "Hugswala swala swal honom!"      Meaning, as they who tell it deem,       Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well,sorry, that's not life here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever thesame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to tango. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to tango.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item></channel></rss>