<?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[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want to gradually reduce the number of troops that we have in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that and understand how they have to play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?   Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30672]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further than is necessary to some good end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55501]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60585]]></link><description><![CDATA[They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes  Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brighter than Parian marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brighter than Parian marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22369</guid></item></channel></rss>