<?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[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59816]]></link><description><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17915]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63482]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realize that this is a major area where we need to focus attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by it young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56508]]></link><description><![CDATA[He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8964]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26328]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,   And neither way inclines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't grow much grass on anything labeled poor. It's very bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30979]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't grow much grass on anything labeled poor. It's very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59778]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell them I've had a wonderful life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell them I've had a wonderful life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24125</guid></item></channel></rss>