<?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[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in condition. I was never taken out of a game because I was weak. I was taken out because I was getting hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring,   So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13426]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to the world which has been entrusted to the Church. The vocation is answered in the home and office and factory and field. There it is that the People of God bears its witness to the vocation of the People of God, a people with a people's diversity and complex vitality, a people comprising a multiplicity of cultures and histories and colours and tongues, a people and not a collection of individuals, a people bound together in allegiance to one King and in obedience to one purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item></channel></rss>