<?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 function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16105]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,  Leaves off, against his placid wish,   Impaling worms to torture fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference between an ordinarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference between an ordinarily good man and one that is devout lies herein, that the first observes God's commands without any special fervour or promptitude; whereas the latter not only keeps them, but does it willingly, earnestly, and resolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world,  And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy   Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,    Which scorns a modern invocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love going fast and I also love the jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love going fast and I also love the jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a good job of getting ready each week and coming out fired up and ready to play. I don't expect anything different now, because our kids have stepped up in the big games. That's something you've got to be able to do in this district, and we can't go in worried about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies, As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise,  And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,   Till we join with the planets who choir their delight,    The signs in the streets and the signs in the skies     Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,      And Broadway make one with that marvelous stair       That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54726]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. [Lat., Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet  Plus dapis, et rixae multo minus invidiaeque.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to continue the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615]]></link><description><![CDATA[to continue the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer was feeling well, so he didn't have his best game. So I was just happy to be able to knock down some shots and contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099</guid></item></channel></rss>