<?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 man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</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[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It showed the national spotlight that Detroit has the wherewithal to pull off a major national event. It also changes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It showed the national spotlight that Detroit has the wherewithal to pull off a major national event. It also changes the conversation about Detroit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm learning a lot from him. Jason taught me how to really depend on the Bible in tough times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36868]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm learning a lot from him. Jason taught me how to really depend on the Bible in tough times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can look at this as a success. We can definitely expect to back here. Manitoba and Winnipeg are very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can look at this as a success. We can definitely expect to back here. Manitoba and Winnipeg are very important markets to us, and the event has a very good chance of growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind,but marriage is an eye opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind,but marriage is an eye opener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,   Sweeping the sea floors white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670]]></link><description><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures' sake that we believe in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288</guid></item></channel></rss>