<?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[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832]]></link><description><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. This will be the first one that I'll play in after being picked for the past three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50891]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43753]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64549]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28616]]></link><description><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant preoccupation with food, weight, and body image is a sign that an eating disorder is sapping energy from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant preoccupation with food, weight, and body image is a sign that an eating disorder is sapping energy from other areas of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52593]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra quel fiume,  Nel lungo suo cammino,   Se al fonte ancor vicino    E torbido cosi?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are good, some middling, more bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6980]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veiling truth in mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veiling truth in mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12922</guid></item></channel></rss>