<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were very nervous to start the game. I think (it helped) having a pitcher like Pat just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were very nervous to start the game. I think (it helped) having a pitcher like Pat just taking control from the start, and then we started getting comfortable and playing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3691]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to her bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off to her bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9665]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering brings experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering brings experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8853]]></link><description><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the outside looking in, this team has the potential to win right away, ... I can't wait to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33734]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the outside looking in, this team has the potential to win right away, ... I can't wait to get started. I will hit the round running. I will work very hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the meeting after the first screening I had ten times more notes than they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429]]></link><description><![CDATA[who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[extremely sensitive to variation and can result in different ratings in the same vehicle, such as when one has leather-covered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28665]]></link><description><![CDATA[extremely sensitive to variation and can result in different ratings in the same vehicle, such as when one has leather-covered seats and the other has cloth-covered seats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location, location, location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Location, location, location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15843</guid></item></channel></rss>