<?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[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a natural effect of trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a lot of new choices for consumers and operators to make over the next decade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a lot of new choices for consumers and operators to make over the next decade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight fire with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight fire with fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18340]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148]]></link><description><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a lot of dumb mistakes. Just mental errors down the stretch. Turnovers. Just mental lapses that come back and get us. ... Giving somebody an open 3-pointer. Not being in the right place on a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11535]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565</guid></item></channel></rss>