<?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[Man knows more than he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you should remember me with tears and sorrow, I may not remember you at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian               Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895]]></link><description><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits of this project will stay in San Diego.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5617]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999]]></link><description><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16657]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our relationship with India is not related with Pakistan. Both the countries are friendly countries with great ties. The relationship between us and India is not affected with regard to any other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19618]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65970]]></link><description><![CDATA[But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59020]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Souls are not made sweet by taking [ill tempers] out, but by putting something in -- a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This can only eradicate what is wrong, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man. Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does. Therefore "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, by Whose providence my life has been prolonged, and Who has granted me now to begin another year of probation, vouchsafe me such assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, that the continuance of my life may not add to the measure of my guilt, but that I may so repent of the days and years passed in neglect of the duties which Thou hast set before me, in vain thoughts, in sloth, and in folly, that I may apply my heart to true wisdom, by diligence redeem the time lost, and by repentance, obtain pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores  Of all that bore to victory   Our stout old Commodores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about these cells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35990</guid></item></channel></rss>