<?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've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53809]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better atthe top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better atthe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live and you learn -- or you don't live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778]]></link><description><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30118]]></link><description><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind   Doth now, will ever, that experience yield    Which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55614]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10927]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They long to be / Close to you / On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54702]]></link><description><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54702</guid></item></channel></rss>