<?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[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13659]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44175]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;  Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pot boils badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pot boils badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39933]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year,  But oh! it cuts him like a scythe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year,  But oh! it cuts him like a scythe   When tithing time draws near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,   Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53681]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item></channel></rss>